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March 24, 2025
DOJ Opposes Bid To Block Cornell Student's Deportation
The Trump administration asked a New York federal judge to reject a bid to block deportation proceedings against a noncitizen Cornell University student over his pro-Palestinian advocacy as well as two executive orders accused of chilling the free speech rights of foreign students.
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March 24, 2025
DC Circ. Appears Divided In Venezuelan Deportation Appeal
A D.C. Circuit panel seemed split on Monday as the appellate judges contended with the Trump administration's bid to dissolve a trial court order blocking the deportations of some Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
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March 24, 2025
Venezuelans Seek Hold On End To DHS Removal Protections
Lawyers representing Venezuelans living in the United States urged a California federal judge on Monday to pause actions by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that would end temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the country, saying the actions were driven in part by racial animus.
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March 24, 2025
HHS To Share Immigration Status Of Migrant Kid Sponsors
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday removed part of a regulation barring it from sharing the immigration status of potential sponsors of unaccompanied children with law enforcement or immigration enforcement agencies.
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March 24, 2025
DHS Deporting Immigrants To Arbitrary Countries, Suit Says
A group of immigrants have filed a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court challenging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's purported policy of deporting noncitizens without warning to countries that are neither their country of origin nor a country where they have status or citizenship.
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March 24, 2025
Feds Accuse Columbia Activist Of Fraud On Green Card App
The Trump administration said Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who is facing removal for negatively impacting U.S. foreign policy, is also removable because he concealed prior employment history on his green card application.
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March 24, 2025
Deadline In Removal Review Cases Not Rigid, High Court Told
A Jamaican drug dealer ordered deported by U.S. immigration authorities who is seeking shelter in the country for fear of torture back home was joined by the U.S. government on Monday in telling the U.S. Supreme Court that his court challenge to a deportation order was not precluded by federal law, and was timely.
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March 24, 2025
Lawyers Slam Trump Memo On 'Vexatious' Attys
BigLaw attorneys, immigration lawyers and legal advocacy organizations have been quick to blast President Donald Trump for what some of them call an "inexcusable and despicable" memo that is meant to intimidate attorneys out of challenging the administration.
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March 24, 2025
Trump Asks High Court To Halt Fed. Workers' Reinstatement
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to pause a California federal court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired from six agencies, arguing the band of nonprofit groups that obtained the order have no standing to challenge the firings.
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March 24, 2025
Justices Pass Up BNP Paribas Appeal In Sudan Refugee Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a petition from BNP Paribas to review a grant class certification in a suit alleging the French banking giant enabled human rights abuses in Sudan.
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March 24, 2025
Judge Won't Lift Block On Trump's Wartime Law Removals
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Monday rejected the Trump administration's request to lift a temporary restraining order blocking removals of alleged Venezuelan gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, saying they are entitled to a hearing first.
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March 22, 2025
Up Next At High Court: Non-Delegation & Clean Air Fights
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to hear arguments in a dispute that could revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle and trigger a regulatory power shift.Â
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March 21, 2025
Trump Tells AG To Seek Sanctions On 'Vexatious' Attys
President Donald Trump on Friday night directed the U.S. attorney general to seek sanctions against attorneys and firms who lodge "frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious" lawsuits against the federal government, focusing on immigration and BigLaw attorneys he claims "coach clients to conceal their past or lie" when seeking asylum.
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March 21, 2025
Judge Won't Lift Injunction On Refugee Program Shutdown
A Washington federal judge on Friday refused to pause an order preliminarily barring President Donald Trump from suspending the U.S. refugee program and withholding federal funding for refugee services, saying the Trump administration failed to show it risked irreparable harm.
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March 21, 2025
Judge Vows To Find Out If Deportation Order Was Violated
A D.C. federal judge demanded to know how the Trump administration understood his verbal order that deportation flights headed to El Salvador be turned back last week, vowing to "get to the bottom of" whether his order was violated and what the consequences will be, in a hearing Friday.
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March 21, 2025
ICE's 'No Release Policy' Is Back In Effect, Attys Say
Attorneys representing noncitizens who successfully challenged the New York Field Office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's policy of detaining virtually every noncitizen it arrested told a Manhattan federal judge that the so-called no release policy is back in place.
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March 21, 2025
Immigration Suits You May Have Missed: A Roundup
Litigation developments in immigration cases have been dominating the news cycle, including cases over deportations of Venezuelans, a pro-Palestinian activist's habeas petition and a challenge to a Biden-era asylum rule. With cases moving at lightning speed, Law360 is providing a rundown of developments that may have been missed over the past week.
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March 21, 2025
Push To Deport Cornell Student Likely Retaliation, Attys Say
Attorneys for a Cornell University graduate student challenging two of President Donald Trump's executive orders said on Friday the U.S. Department of Justice indicated overnight that immigration officials want to detain and deport their client, a move the attorneys suggest is retaliatory.
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March 21, 2025
Nonlawyer Migrant Aides See Clear Mission But Murky Future
"Accredited representatives," a little-known and underutilized role that allows nonlawyers to represent immigrants with the federal government's authorization, are facing unprecedented demand but also an uncertain future under the Trump administration.
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March 21, 2025
Trump Asks NJ Judge To Send Columbia Activist Suit To La.
The Trump administration has called on a New Jersey federal judge to transfer a petition from Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil seeking release from immigration detention to Louisiana, just one day after it was sent to the Garden State.
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March 21, 2025
Colo. Disbars 'Unregulatable' NY Atty For Abandoning Clients
An immigration attorney licensed in New York may no longer practice in Colorado federal courts due to her track record of abandoning clients, disciplinary authorities have ruled, with the order set to be enacted next month.
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March 21, 2025
Gov't Backs GEO To Have Full 9th Circ. Mull $23.2M Wage Row
A Ninth Circuit panel disregarded Congress' wishes when it ordered the GEO Group to pay $23.2 million because it needed to pay detainees in a work program under Washington state's minimum wage, the government said, backing the company's bid for rehearing.
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March 20, 2025
Judge Orders Feds To Explain If Removals Defied Injunction
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Thursday called the Trump administration's Thursday response to his inquiry into whether the deportation of Venezuelans violated his injunction "woefully insufficient," and gave the administration until Friday morning to fulfill its obligations and provide the court with an adequate response.
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March 20, 2025
11th Circ. Allows Remand Of EB-5 Suit To Fla. State Court
The Eleventh Circuit has dismissed the appeal of a Canadian citizen trying to compel arbitration and keep in federal court the suit accusing him of defrauding foreign investors, saying it doesn't have jurisdiction to review the order sending the case back to Florida state court.
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March 20, 2025
DOJ Drops Biden-Era Suit Over Texas Migrant Arrest Law
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a federal judge to dismiss its challenge to a Texas law that allows state officials to arrest people suspected of crossing the border unlawfully and empowers state judges to order their removal.
Expert Analysis
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Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Atop the list of ways fishing makes me a better lawyer is the relief it offers from the chronic stress of a demanding caseload, but it has also improved my listening skills and patience, and has served as an exceptional setting for building earnest relationships, says Steven DeGeorge​​​​​​​ at Robinson Bradshaw.
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A Healthier Legal Industry Starts With Emotional Intelligence
The legal profession has long been plagued by high rates of mental health issues, in part due to attorneys’ early training and broader societal stereotypes — but developing one’s emotional intelligence is one way to foster positive change, collectively and individually, says attorney Esperanza Franco.
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To Make Your Legal Writing Clear, Emulate A Master Chef
To deliver clear and effective written advocacy, lawyers should follow the model of a fine dining chef — seasoning a foundation of pure facts with punchy descriptors, spicing it up with analogies, refining the recipe and trimming the fat — thus catering to a sophisticated audience of decision-makers, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Circuit Judge Writes An Opinion, AI Helps: What Now?
Last week's Eleventh Circuit opinion in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance, notable for a concurrence outlining the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate a term's common meaning, is hopefully the first step toward developing a coherent basis for the judiciary's generative AI use, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.
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Perspectives
Trauma-Informed Legal Approaches For Pro Bono Attorneys
As National Trauma Awareness Month ends, pro bono attorneys should nevertheless continue to acknowledge the mental and physical effects of trauma, allowing them to better represent clients, and protect themselves from compassion fatigue and burnout, say Katherine Cronin at Stinson and Katharine Manning at Blackbird.
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Playing Music Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My deep and passionate involvement in playing, writing and producing music equipped me with skills — like creativity, improvisation and problem-solving — that contribute to the success of my legal career, says attorney Kenneth Greene.
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How Attys Can Avoid Pitfalls When Withdrawing From A Case
The Trump campaign's recent scuffle over its bid to replace its counsel in a pregnancy retaliation suit offers a chance to remind attorneys that many troubles inherent in withdrawing from a case can be mitigated or entirely avoided by communicating with clients openly and frequently, says Christopher Konneker at Orsinger Nelson.
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Using A Children's Book Approach In Firm Marketing Content
From “The Giving Tree” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” most children’s books are easy to remember because they use simple words and numbers to tell stories with a human impact — a formula law firms should emulate in their marketing content to stay front of mind for potential clients, says Seema Desai Maglio at The Found Word.
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Being An EMT Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While some of my experiences as an emergency medical technician have been unusually painful and searing, the skills I’ve learned — such as triage, empathy and preparedness — are just as useful in my work as a restructuring lawyer, says Marshall Huebner at Davis Polk.
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Mitigating Incarceration's Impacts On Foreign Nationals
Sentencing arguments that highlighted the disparate impact incarceration would have on a British national recently sentenced for insider training by a New York district court, when compared to similarly situated U.S. citizens, provide an example of the advocacy needed to avoid or mitigate problems unique to noncitizen defendants, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert.
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Exploring An Alternative Model Of Litigation Finance
A new model of litigation finance, most aptly described as insurance-backed litigation funding, differs from traditional funding in two key ways, and the process of securing it involves three primary steps, say Bob Koneck, Christopher Le Neve Foster and Richard Butters at Atlantic Global Risk LLC.
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Teaching Yoga Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Being a yoga instructor has helped me develop my confidence and authenticity, as well as stress management and people skills — all of which have crossed over into my career as an attorney, says Laura Gongaware at Clyde & Co.
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A Vision For Economic Clerkships In The Legal System
As courts handle increasingly complex damages analyses involving vast amounts of data, an economic clerkship program — integrating early-career economists into the judicial system — could improve legal outcomes and provide essential training to clerks, say Mona Birjandi at Data for Decisions and Matt Farber at Secretariat.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Text Message Data
Electronically stored information on cellphones, and in particular text messages, can present unique litigation challenges, and recent court decisions demonstrate that counsel must carefully balance what data should be preserved, collected, reviewed and produced, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Swimming Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Years of participation in swimming events, especially in the open water, have proven to be ideal preparation for appellate arguments in court — just as you must put your trust in the ocean when competing in a swim event, you must do the same with the judicial process, says John Kulewicz at Vorys.