A Harvard University philosophy professor who has lived in the United States as a legal immigrant for nearly 30 years testified in Massachusetts federal court Tuesday that after seeing video of the arrest of Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in March, he was so fearful of the same fate, he canceled a trip to Germany to visit his dying brother.
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Harvard Prof Testifies Of Fear After Foreign Student's Arrest

By Julie Manganis

A Harvard University philosophy professor who has lived in the United States as a legal immigrant for nearly 30 years testified in Massachusetts federal court Tuesday that after seeing video of the arrest of Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in March, he was so fearful of the same fate, he canceled a trip to Germany to visit his dying brother.

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High Court Allows Trump's Gov't Cuts And Restructuring

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the Trump administration can move forward with its plans for large-scale layoffs and reorganizations at various federal departments and agencies, lifting a California federal judge's order that had paused the efforts while a legal challenge continues.

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Feds Fight Class Injunction Bid In Birthright Citizenship Row

By Rae Ann Varona

The Trump administration Monday opposed two immigration advocacy groups' bid to block President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order for a proposed nationwide class, saying the groups were essentially seeking a universal injunction that the U.S. Supreme Court had recently rejected.

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FinCEN To Appeal Block Of Trump's Border Cash Biz Order

By Sydney Price

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, its director and others on Tuesday filed a notice of their plan to appeal a California federal judge's decision to temporarily block the Trump administration's order singling out cash-moving businesses along the southwest border for heightened anti-money laundering reporting.

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ENFORCEMENT

Chinese Man Arrested Over COVID Data Theft, Law Firm Hack

By Dorothy Atkins

Federal agents have arrested a Chinese citizen to face criminal charges for his alleged role in the Microsoft "HAFNIUM" cyberattack in which the People's Republic of China allegedly directed him and a co-conspirator to hack email accounts at a law firm and a Texas university to steal crucial COVID-19 vaccine information.

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'Tiger King' Star 'Doc' Antle Sentenced For Wildlife Trafficking

By Rae Ann Varona

Bhagavan "Doc" Antle, one of the stars of the Netflix docuseries "Tiger King," was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison and ordered to give up three chimpanzees, having pled guilty in South Carolina federal court to wildlife trafficking and money laundering.

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LITIGATION

Split 9th Circ. Axes Illegal Reentry-After-Removal Conviction

By Rae Ann Varona

A split Ninth Circuit on Tuesday undid a Dominican man's conviction for unlawfully re-entering the U.S. after previously being removed, saying the federal government failed to prove he ever escaped border agents' surveillance near the U.S.-Mexico border.

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DHS Faces New Suit Over Protected Status Terminations

By Dorothy Atkins

An immigration rights group hit the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with another Administrative Procedure Act lawsuit in California federal court on Monday, challenging its abrupt termination of temporary protection for over 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal who've sought refuge from environmental and political crises in their home countries.

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Trump, Iowa AG Back Florida's Push To Enforce Migrant Law

By David Minsky

The Trump administration, the state of Iowa and the Immigration Reform Law Institute told the Eleventh Circuit they support Florida's push to enforce a law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized immigrants into the state, arguing the law isn't preempted by federal statutes. 

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NY Developer Accuses Atty, Others Of $3M Investment Fraud

By Isaac Monterose

A New York developer and his business have filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing several companies, a law firm and others of defrauding him out of more than $3 million in an investment fraud scheme, saying they made false promises of "extraordinary returns" from purportedly monetizing certain letters of credit.

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Fla. Distorted Detention Center Construction, Group Says

By David Minsky

An environmental nonprofit claimed in Florida federal court filings Tuesday it has evidence additional land in the Everglades is being used to construct a federal immigration detention center, alleging a misrepresentation from Florida officials that the camp is built on the footprint of an existing airport structure.

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Brief

Judge Says Khalil Not Required To Check In With ICE

By Britain Eakin

A federal judge in New Jersey said Palestinian green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administration sought to deport for harming U.S. foreign policy interests, need not report to immigration officials as a condition of his release from immigration detention.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Birthright Opinions Reveal Views On Rule 23(b)(2) Relief

The justices' multiple opinions in the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 27 decision in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. CASA, shed light on whether Rule 23(b)(2) could fill the void created by the court's decision to restrict nationwide injunctions, says Benjamin Johns at Shub Johns.

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Federal Construction Considerations Amid Policy Overhaul

The rapid overhaul of federal procurement, heightened domestic sourcing rules and aggressive immigration enforcement are reshaping U.S. construction, but several pragmatic considerations can help federal contractors engaged in infrastructure and public construction avoid the legal, financial and operational fallout, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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ABA Opinion Makes It A Bit Easier To Drop A 'Hot Potato'

The American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion clarifies when attorneys may terminate clients without good cause, though courts may still disqualify a lawyer who drops a client like a hot potato, so sending a closeout letter is always a best practice, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

US Supreme Court Term In Review: What You Need To Know

The U.S. Supreme Court considered many significant legal issues this term, including the proper venue for challenging agency actions and the level of scrutiny courts should apply to bans on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. But the emergency docket and a decision limiting nationwide injunctions loomed large. Here, Law360 takes a look at the cases and those who litigated them, as well as the sharpest writings from the justices.

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Grieving Texas Legal Community Steps Up After Flood Losses

By Lynn LaRowe

Texas lawyers are rallying around colleagues whose children were killed in the Guadalupe River's floodwaters last weekend, as attorneys around the Lone Star State organize widespread efforts to assist victims and hard-hit communities.

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Audio

Top Supreme Court Atty Touts AI Version Of Own Argument

By Jeff Overley

You're not hallucinating — a tech-savvy U.S. Supreme Court advocate generated a near-facsimile of his voice, had an artificial intelligence chatbot use it to argue the same case he recently argued, and told Law360 on Tuesday that "many of its answers were as good or better than mine."

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Gordon Rees Taps Calif. Employment Atty As Next Firm Head

By James Mills

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced Tuesday that a 20-year veteran employment litigator who has long been involved with firm management has been tapped to become the firm's new managing partner effective next year.  

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Analysis

Trump Tariff Fights Put Spotlight On Major Questions Doctrine

By Natalie Olivo

Challenges to President Donald Trump's global tariffs have brought renewed attention to the U.S. Supreme Court's major questions doctrine, including observations that lower courts have so far inconsistently applied this approach when scrutinizing a range of agency actions.

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Calif. Bar Seeks 30-Day Suspension For Ex-Exec's Misconduct

By Emily Sawicki

The California State Bar Court has recommended a 30-day "actual" suspension for its onetime executive director, who last year was found culpable for a "significant ethical violation" in making misrepresentations to the State Bar Board of Trustees regarding his 2014 visit to Mongolia, which allegedly cost thousands of dollars in bar funds.

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'Practice Better Judgment,' Judge Tells Comscore Foe

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge "strongly" admonished a film distribution and data company for filing an amended monopolization complaint against Comscore on the Fourth of July, while also concluding that the filing mooted, for now, a bid to force the box office giant to continue sharing data.

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Ex-DC Prosecutors Rip Pick Of Emil Bove For 3rd Circ.

By Jake Maher

A group of former federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., panned Emil Bove as a "dangerous" pick for the Third Circuit and criticized his record as a prosecutor as that of a loyal follower of President Donald Trump, in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Have A Week To Finish Mediation

By Catherine Marfin

A Texas federal judge has given Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog a week to finish mediation in a fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's secret relationship with a former firm partner.

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Analysis

The Biggest Copyright Rulings Of 2025: A Midyear Report

By Ivan Moreno

Two California judges were the first to deliver crucial rulings about what constitutes fair use in training generative artificial intelligence models — a question expected to test the boundaries of the copyright doctrine amid the emergence of the groundbreaking technology. Here is Law360's list of the biggest copyright decisions so far this year.

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Analysis

PE Attorneys Remain Optimistic Despite First-Half Slump

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

While many private equity attorneys predicted a booming environment heading into 2025 with President Donald Trump's incoming pro-business administration, uncertainty surrounding tariffs and antitrust regulations has been a hurdle for dealmaking and fundraising, causing an unanticipated slowdown in private equity activity.

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Trade Court Judge Sworn In As USDA Deputy Secretary

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Stephen A. Vaden of the U.S. Court of International Trade has resigned from his judgeship to join the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the second-in-command.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Biery Has Fun Writing

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery is now famous for the quirky written opinions he's produced during three decades as a trial judge for the Western District of Texas, but he was on the federal bench for a few years before he started to experiment in his opinion writing.

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Akin Gump

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ArentFox Schiff LLP

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Boies Schiller

Cleary Gottlieb

Coffey Burlington

Cozen O'Connor

Debevoise & Plimpton

Finnegan

Fried Frank

Gentry Locke

Geragos & Geragos

Girardi & Keese

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Gray Reed

Greenberg Gross

Hodgson Russ

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Law Office of Shawn C. Brown

Lowenstein Sandler

Moorman Law Firm LLC

Munger Tolles

Norton Rose

Phillips Lytle

Rusty Hardin & Associates

Sher Tremonte

Shub & Johns

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Skadden Arps

Stinson LLP

Thompson Hine

Venable LLP

Zimmer Citron

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ACLU of Northern California Inc.

American Association of University Professors

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Federation of Government Employees

American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

Americans for Immigrant Justice

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Cornell University

Democracy Forward Foundation

Earthjustice

Florida Immigrant Coalition

Google LLC

Harvard University

Immigration Reform Law Institute

Institute for Justice

Institute for Policy Integrity

Learning Resources Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Nasdaq Inc.

Netflix Inc.

New York University

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Preqin Ltd.

Protect Democracy Project Inc.

Service Employees International Union

State Bar of California

State Bar of Texas

The Walt Disney Co.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

UCLA School of Law

Walmart Inc.

comScore Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Supreme Court

Commodity Credit Corp.

Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Labor Relations Authority

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

National Labor Relations Board

National Science Foundation

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Office of Federal Procurement Policy

Peace Corps

Small Business Administration

Social Security Administration

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio