The Trump administration's newly imposed $100,000 supplemental fee on new H-1B petitions may disproportionately affect healthcare employees' ability to recruit international medical graduates, and the fee's national interest exceptions will not adequately solve ensuing problems for healthcare employers or medically underserved areas, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to block the government from the "unfettered" use of Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration data to identify and target millions of people for deportation.
The U.S. Department of Labor failed to show that a pork farm in Tennessee fired two immigrant workers for complaining to the agency about unpaid wages, a federal judge ruled, pointing to their behavior toward other workers as the reason for their discipline.
The U.S. Department of Justice and a former immigration judge agreed Wednesday to settle a lawsuit in Florida federal court alleging she was denied a hardship transfer and reasonable accommodation due to her gender and age.
Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration's cut of $34 million to protect New York's massive transit system from terrorism, crediting the state attorney general's allegation that the White House unlawfully tied the grant to immigration policy.
The federal E-Verify system that employers must use to check people's eligibility to work in the U.S. went down Wednesday morning as a result of the government shutdown, while federal immigration courts are anticipated to keep operating.
The Trump administration on Tuesday urged the Second Circuit to reverse lower courts' findings that led to the release of two college students who say they were wrongly detained by immigration officials for expressing pro-Palestinian views, attacking the notion that they're able to bring habeas corpus challenges to their detention.
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday ordered all of its judges to revisit a split decision that found President Donald Trump's proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to be likely unlawful.
The American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees sued Tuesday over the Trump administration's threats to fire federal workers in the event of a government shutdown, arguing that the threats stray from historic practice and violate the law.