July 08, 2025
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 R眉meysa 脰zt眉rk in March, he was so fearful of the same fate, he canceled a trip to Germany to visit his dying brother.
July 07, 2025
A Trump administration lawyer told a Massachusetts federal judge Monday that the government's decision to revoke the visas of聽hundreds of college students and faculty over their聽pro-Palestinian speech was not viewpoint discrimination but a response to what it contends are threats to national security.
July 03, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge will begin hearing testimony Monday in a challenge by academic organizations to the Trump administration's visa revocations and removals of noncitizen faculty and students who have expressed pro-Palestinian views, in one of the first trials over the president's second-term policies.
June 26, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge suggested Thursday he is open to allowing聽U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement聽agents to testify anonymously at an upcoming bench trial in a suit brought by academic groups challenging the detention of noncitizen students and faculty who express pro-Palestinian views.
June 05, 2025
Potential witnesses are afraid the government will retaliate against them if they testify in a free speech case brought by academic organizations over immigration officials' detention of non-citizen students and faculty for expressing pro-Palestinian views,聽according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court seeking a protective order.
June 02, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration's bid to foreclose聽discovery and a July 7 bench trial in a free-speech lawsuit by academic organizations challenging deportations of some of their members apparently based on their pro-Palestinian views.
May 22, 2025
The Trump administration is urging a Massachusetts federal judge to bar discovery and trial in a lawsuit brought by academic organizations accusing it of pursuing an "ideological deportation policy" against noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests.
May 06, 2025
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.
April 29, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday ruled that he will allow academic organizations to pursue their "novel" First Amendment claims against the Trump administration over the deportation of noncitizen faculty and students who expressed pro-Palestinian views.
April 23, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday declined to consider a request by a group of academic organizations to immediately bar the government from deporting students and faculty over pro-Palestinian activity, and hinted that he may dismiss the complaint for lack of standing.