Immigration

  • May 08, 2025

    Trump Can't Do 'End Run' To Stop Funds To Sanctuary Cities

    A California federal judge said Thursday he's inclined to issue a clarification to his April 24 preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from "sanctuary" jurisdictions, saying he doesn't want an executive order President Trump issued April 28 used as an "end run" around it.

  • May 08, 2025

    ICE Award Termination Dooms Protest, GAO Says

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office has dismissed a private investigation company's protest of a deal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement terminated after the protest began, refusing to rule on the company's contention that ICE terminated the deal to avoid review.

  • May 08, 2025

    Solicitor General Urges Justices To Let Immigrant Parole End

    Solicitor General D. John Sauer on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to halt a Boston federal judge's order blocking the Trump administration from ending the parole status of nearly half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

  • May 08, 2025

    2nd Circ. Weighs New Deportation Test Post-Loper Bright

    The Second Circuit on Thursday kicked the tires on a new test for immigrant removal proceedings stemming from criminal convictions, mulling the case of a Chinese man with two convictions in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision ending deference to agency decisions.

  • May 08, 2025

    Trump Admin Defends Gov't Restructuring As Lawful

    The Trump administration defended what it says is a lawful executive order looking to reorganize agencies and terminate workers, telling a California federal judge that unions, nonprofits and local governments "waited far too long" to seek a temporary restraining order.

  • May 08, 2025

    Ill. Judge Again Blocks Deletion Of Immigrant Student Records

    An Illinois federal judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction barring immigration officials from deleting student and exchange visitor records, finding eight international students who alleged their due process rights were being violated were likely to prevail on their claims.

  • May 08, 2025

    DOJ Says Judge Can't Certify Subclasses In Wartime Law Row

    The Trump administration has called on a D.C. federal judge to reject the American Civil Liberties Union's attempt to certify two subclasses of noncitizens subject to the president's proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, citing "jurisdictional defects."

  • May 08, 2025

    Full DC Circ. Restores International Media Funding, For Now

    The en banc D.C. Circuit on Wednesday restored federal grant funding to international broadcasters while the Trump administration appeals a lower court ruling blocking cuts to the agency that oversees Voice of America.

  • May 07, 2025

    Judge Seeks Details On U.S.-El Salvador Detainee Deal

    A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday said the Trump administration would have to turn over more information about its arrangement with El Salvador to imprison alleged Venezuelan gang members deported under the Alien Enemies Act, as he considers whether they should be returned to the United States.

  • May 07, 2025

    10th Circ. Affirms Toss Of Suit Over Worship Leader's Visa

    The Tenth Circuit has refused to revive a New Mexico church's bid to get a South African worship leader a religious worker visa, saying in a published opinion that a consular officer had a genuine reason for denying the visa.

  • May 07, 2025

    Judge Warns Feds Impending Libya Flights Would Defy Order

    The federal government's reported plan to imminently deport migrants to Libya "would clearly violate" a court order requiring that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security provide due process protections for immigrants facing deportation to countries where they have no prior ties, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Wednesday.

  • May 07, 2025

    Feds Seek Ax Of Haiti, Venezuela TPS Vacatur Challenge

    The Trump administration has called on a Massachusetts federal judge to dismiss litigation brought by immigrants from Haiti and Venezuela seeking to block the government from vacating their temporary protected status, saying the court lacks jurisdiction over their claims.

  • May 07, 2025

    Judge Says ICE 'Spirited' Academic Away To Avoid Challenge

    A Virginia federal judge allowed a jailed Georgetown University fellow's suit accusing the government of illegally detaining him to proceed and be heard in Virginia, saying the government appears to have rapidly and repeatedly moved him between detention facilities in order to delay a habeas petition and to forum shop.

  • May 07, 2025

    Feds Must Return Detained Student To Vt., 2nd Circ. Says

    The Second Circuit on Wednesday ordered that detained Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk be returned to Vermont from Louisiana while a district court weighs her claims that the government jailed her for expressing pro-Palestinian views.

  • May 07, 2025

    3rd Circ. Rejects Feds' Bid To Challenge Venue In Khalil Case

    A Third Circuit panel rejected the Trump administration's last-ditch attempt to transfer Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's challenge to his detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from New Jersey federal court to Louisiana federal court.

  • May 07, 2025

    Mass. Justices May Bless Use Of High Bail To Block Removal

    Justices on Massachusetts' highest court appeared reluctant on Wednesday to second-guess a lower court's decision to dramatically increase the bail of a defendant facing imminent deportation solely to keep him in the state for trial.

  • May 06, 2025

    Judges Block Trump's Wartime Law Removals In Colo., SDNY

    Federal judges in Colorado and New York on Tuesday blocked deportations of noncitizens in their respective districts under President Donald Trump's proclamation aimed at expelling alleged Venezuelan gang members, with one saying Trump's assertion of absolute power over immigration policy "staggers."

  • May 06, 2025

    Judge Rejects DOJ's 'Jiggery-Pokery' On Refugee Admissions

    A Washington federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to take immediate steps to facilitate travel and admissions for about 12,000 refugees blocked by the president's ban, saying the government was not free to disobey statutory and constitutional law and federal court orders.

  • May 06, 2025

    2nd Circ. Suggests Students Can Challenge Detention In Court

    A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday voiced doubts about the U.S. Department of Justice's position that immigrant detainees cannot immediately file constitutional challenges in district courts, amid arguments by lawyers for two students that such a policy amounts to suspending the Great Writ. 

  • May 06, 2025

    Mich. Judge To Extend Order Restoring Student Visa Records

    A Michigan federal judge said Tuesday she would extend an April order restoring foreign students' terminated visa records after the students said they feared the administration could reverse course without a court order protecting their legal status.

  • May 06, 2025

    Judge Warns He Wants 'Candor' In Free-Speech Removal Suit

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday told counsel that he expects "absolute candor" as he presides over a suit challenging the Trump administration's practice of arresting and removing noncitizen students and faculty from the United States over pro-Palestinian speech.

  • May 06, 2025

    Newark Raises Safety Concerns About ICE Detention Center

    The city of Newark told a New Jersey federal judge that the GEO Group has started housing immigration detainees at Delaney Hall, even though the city's building department found numerous safety concerns after conducting an initial visual inspection last month.

  • May 06, 2025

    Judge Won't Reverse Order To Bring Back Asylum-Seeker

    A Baltimore federal judge Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's request that she vacate her April ruling ordering the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker sent to a Salvadoran prison, giving the government 48 hours to appeal before she starts demanding regular updates on what's been done to comply.

  • May 05, 2025

    Judge Details Block On Trump Targeting Sanctuary Cities

    A California federal judge on Friday elaborated on why he preliminarily blocked the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from local jurisdictions that limit their law enforcement's involvement in federal immigration enforcement, saying it doesn't matter that the administration has not yet withheld funds.

  • May 05, 2025

    Judge Backs Biden-Era Protections For H-2A Farmworkers

    A North Carolina federal judge tossed a challenge to a Biden-era regulation that enhanced the organizing rights of seasonal farmworkers with H-2A visas, saying Monday that the U.S. Department of Labor didn't act arbitrarily and capriciously when it issued the regulation.

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  • Illinois May Be Gearing Up To Ban E-Verify

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    Recently passed amendments to the Illinois Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act appear to effectively ban the use of E-Verify in the state, but ambiguity means employers will have to weigh the risks of continued use while also taking note of other work authorization requirements imposed by the updates, say Julie Ratliff and Elizabeth Wellhausen at Taft.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

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    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • A Primer On Navigating The Conrad 30 Immigration Program

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    As the Conrad 30 program opens its annual window to help place immigrant physicians in medically underserved areas, employers and physicians engaged in the process must carefully understand the program's nuanced requirements, say Andrew Desposito and Greg Berk at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • A Class Action Trend Tests Limit Of Courts' Equity Powers

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    A troubling trend has developed in federal class action litigation as some counsel and judges attempt to push injunctive relief classes under Rule 23(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure beyond the traditional limits of federal courts' equitable powers, say attorneys at Jones Day.

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    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

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    After Chevron: Courts Will Still Defer To Feds On Nat'l Security

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    Agencies with trade responsibilities may be less affected by Chevron’s demise because of the special deference courts have shown when hearing international trade cases involving national security, foreign policy or the president’s constitutional authority to direct such matters, say attorneys at Venable.

  • What 7th Circ. Collective Actions Ruling Means For Employers

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    With the Seventh Circuit’s recent Fair Labor Standards Act ruling in Vanegas v. Signet Builders, a majority of federal appellate courts that have addressed the jurisdictional scope of employee collective actions now follow the U.S. Supreme Court's limiting precedent, bolstering an employer defense in circuits that have yet to weigh in, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.

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