Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review swore in 77 permanent and five temporary immigration judges to help reduce its 3.53 million pending cases, which the agency said was currently its highest priority.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement improperly awarded a $26.6 million maintenance contract at a Georgia facility, finding it failed to follow its own solicitation criteria when evaluating the technical aspects of proposals.
Migrants suing over an alleged scheme to lure them onto flights to Martha's Vineyard asked a federal magistrate judge Wednesday to order a private contractor to turn over documents they say will illuminate the broader contours of a plan for migrant relocation trips.
The Board of Immigration Appeals shifted a case involving Brazilian nationals back to Boston after finding the immigration judge granted a change of venue without proper consideration and should have limited off-the-record discussions.
The GEO Group Inc. said Washington state conveniently ignored the fact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied health inspectors access to a detention center when the state asked a federal judge to require the company to let them in.
An attorney and onetime Connecticut lawmaker should be temporarily suspended after a criminal conviction for receiving campaign funds during a law firm party and further disciplined for charging an immigration client a $30,000 flat fee, some of which he called his firm's "pocket money," state ethics authorities have said.
Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a pair of executive orders aimed at preventing undocumented immigrant workers from using the U.S. financial system and expanding financial technology firms' access to Federal Reserve payment accounts and services.
Federal prosecutors urged the Ninth Circuit Tuesday to revive lawsuits against California and Oregon claiming states are required to hand over voter registration lists that include driver's license and Social Security numbers, saying the data would be used to look for noncitizens and others not eligible to vote.