The federal E-Verify system for employers to check people's eligibility to work in the U.S. has resumed operation, a little over a week after it went offline with the start of the ongoing government shutdown.
A Ninth Circuit panel appeared split Thursday on the Trump administration's bid to preserve its ability to send Oregon National Guard members to Portland, with one judge suggesting the president's decision is entitled to deference and another panelist skeptical that the federal government would suffer harm if the deployment plan is tabled.
A Guatemalan man who lost his path to U.S. citizenship after being convicted of breaking into a car has been offered another chance at a new trial if he can show his attorney failed to inform him of his right to appeal, Massachusetts' intermediate appeals court said Thursday.
Florida asked the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to overturn a block on a state law that criminalizes the entry of unauthorized immigrants into the state, arguing that there is no preemption of federal immigration law.
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday probed an attorney for President Donald Trump on the bounds of his orders deploying National Guard troops to Chicago, saying there was "a very large disconnect" between court filings stating they're there to protect federal agents and property and the president's public remarks that the troops will tackle crime in the city.
The Board of Immigration Appeals glossed over evidence and failed to justify its decision to overturn an immigration judge who granted an El Salvador man protection from removal under the Convention Against Torture, a Second Circuit panel said.
Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.
An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday that she will temporarily restrain federal agents from using allegedly violent silencing tactics against press and peaceful protesters, and she won't limit her order to the detention facility the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates in the Chicago suburb of Broadview.
The Board of Immigration Appeals has backed an immigration judge's decision to reject an agreement between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a Honduran transgender woman seeking to avoid deportation, holding that judges are free to accept or reject such agreements.
Michigan's chief justice said Wednesday she was "struggling" with an immigration legal assistance group's contention that a one-year notice deadline for claims against the state doesn't apply to suits against the governor.