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• October 31, 2025

  Return Detainees For Suit Over ICE Facility, Judge Says

  Immigration detainees who were transported to Kansas the morning after they launched a proposed class action over allegedly inhumane conditions at the government's Broadview, Illinois, holding facility should be promptly returned to the Northern District of Illinois, a Chicago federal judge said Friday.

• October 31, 2025

  Real Estate Recap: Retail Rebirth, Data Center Outlier, SCIFs

  Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a look at how recent big-box store bankruptcies could usher in a retail sector revival, Florida's comparative inertia building data centers, and a rise in the niche asset class known as "sensitive compartmented information facilities."

• October 31, 2025

  Gov't Owes $330K In Fees For NSF Funding Fight, Court Told

  A higher education association seeks more than $330,000 in attorney fees and costs from the government after winning a ruling blocking the Trump administration from cutting certain National Science Foundation funding, according to a memorandum filed in Massachusetts federal court.

• October 31, 2025

  Trump Admin Must Keep SNAP Running, Federal Judges Say

  A Rhode Island federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to use contingency funds to sustain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits amid the ongoing government shutdown, while a Boston federal judge gave the government until Monday to choose one of two paths to keep the program running to some degree.

• October 31, 2025

  7th Circ. Says Ill. Judge Can't Be 'Supervisor' Of CBP Official

  The Seventh Circuit held Friday that an Illinois federal judge overstepped in requiring a top Border Patrol official leading the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Chicago to appear before her every weekday ahead of a Nov. 5 preliminary injunction hearing, saying she put herself in the position of "an inquisitor rather than that of a neutral adjudicator."

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