Judge Imposes Higher Bar To Deport Professors And Students

By Ganesh Setty

The Trump administration will now face a higher evidentiary burden to deport certain noncitizens after a Massachusetts federal court ruled it violated professors' and students' free speech rights for trying to remove them for their Palestinian advocacy.

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Attys Say ICE Flouting Order Barring Noncitizens' Removal

By Britain Eakin

Attorneys for asylum seekers, who are a part of a class the government is barred from deporting until their immigration cases conclude, told a Maryland federal judge that the Trump administration keeps deporting class members anyway.

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Split 4th Circ. Sides With Feds In DHS Grant Termination Row

By Britain Eakin

A split Fourth Circuit panel ruled Friday that a district court did not abuse its discretion in finding a challenge to the federal government's termination of a citizenship preparation grant program likely belongs in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

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Truckers Can't Lift Calif. Immigrant Driver's License Freeze

By Linda Chiem

A federal judge rejected a local trucking group's bid to force California to lift its freeze on immigrant truck driver's licenses, saying the Golden State cannot run afoul of federal mandates in a way that would jeopardize highway funding or risk the state's licensing program getting decertified altogether.

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North Dakota Co. Says Feds Owe $6M For Unpaid Border Work

By Tom Lotshaw

A North Dakota company tapped for construction work at the U.S. southern border filed a Court of Federal Claims suit alleging that Customs and Border Protection has failed to pay it $6.3 million.

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9th Circ. Revives Honduran Woman's Bid For Asylum

By Tom Lotshaw

The Ninth Circuit has told immigration judges to reconsider their denial of a Honduran woman's bid for asylum and withholding of removal when evidence showed the Honduran government was unable or unwilling to protect her from a gang member partner's abuse.

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Ethiopian TPS Holders Sue To Halt Status Termination

By Elaine Briseño

Ethiopian immigrants on Friday sued for emergency relief to stop the Trump administration from ending their temporary protected status next month, arguing discrimination fueled the decision and ignored the armed conflict and humanitarian crises in their country.

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DC Judge Says Visa Selectees' Travel Ban Suit Is Moot

By Gina Kim

A D.C. federal judge on Friday nixed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration illegally suspended visa processing under a program aimed at diversifying the immigrant community in the United States, noting the statutory expiration of the visas after Sept. 30 has rendered their claims moot.

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Brief

Feds Appeal Ruling On ICE Detainee Bond Hearings

By Carolyn Muyskens

The government is appealing a Massachusetts federal court's finding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees whom the agency apprehended in the state are entitled to a bond hearing.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: How To Start A Law Firm

Launching and sustaining a law firm requires skills most law schools don't teach, but every lawyer should understand a few core principles that can make the leap calculated rather than reckless, says Sam Katz at Athlaw.

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Analysis

Supreme Court Caseload Hits 160-Year Low

By Katie Buehler

Not since the Civil War has the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in as few cases as it will this term — the latest milestone for the court's shrinking docket, and one attorneys say might have more to do with the high court's culture than its expanding emergency appeals caseload.

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Analysis

More Push In The 'Push-Pull' As DOJ Targets 'Gamesmanship'

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice continues to build its task force targeting "gamesmanship" that it says BigLaw attorneys for major companies, especially technology platforms, are using to obstruct antitrust investigations — an effort that has been welcomed by some practitioners and questioned by others.

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Trio Leading US Atty Office Raises 'Red Flag' For Judge

By Carla Baranauckas

The same federal judge who disqualified President Donald Trump's former personal counsel Alina Habba as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor asked the government Friday to explain why the "triumvirate of attorneys" now supervising the office was any more legitimate.

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5 Arrests Made In Shooting Of Indiana Judge, Wife

By Lynn LaRowe

Five people have been charged in connection with the shooting of an Indiana Superior Court Judge and his wife at their home Sunday following an investigation involving state law enforcement in Indiana and Kentucky and federal agencies.

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DOJ Alumni Back Maurene Comey In Effort To Keep Suit Alive

By Rose Krebs

U.S. Department of Justice alumni and a group that includes attorneys, law professors and former judges have filed briefs supporting former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey's call for a New York federal court to reject the DOJ's bid to dismiss a suit over her firing.

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Dems Push For Another Round Of Jack Smith Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

Following former special counsel Jack Smith's congressional appearance, Democrats are looking for him to return once he is able to speak about the second volume of his report on President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents after he left office.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London saw Travelers Insurance hit with a claim from a property buyer over a payout tied to collapsed law firm Axiom Ince, Swedish music group Pophouse Entertainment clash with the production company that helped it create the ABBA Voyage experience, and biotech company Vertex Pharmaceuticals sue rival entity ToolGen for patent infringement.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The EEOC voted to retract major harassment and discrimination protections as civil rights advocates protested. And Goldman Sachs denied rumors it was easing out its prominent chief legal officer despite the lingering stigma over her association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Williams & Connolly LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous opinion that restitution is a criminal punishment subject to the Constitution's ban on increasing punishment retroactively.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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