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  • April 09, 2025

    Labor Board Says Hotel Brochure Doesn't Justify H-2B Need

    A Rhode Island hotel's marketing brochure could not overcome information deficiencies found in its application to hire three H-2B kitchen workers for its upcoming tourist season, a U.S. Department of Labor appeals board said.

  • April 09, 2025

    Immigration Board Says Appeal Period Starts On Decision Day

    The Board of Immigration Appeals said when an immigration judge issues an oral decision, noncitizens must file an appeal within 30 days from the date the decision is rendered for it to be considered timely. 

  • April 09, 2025

    Texas, NY Judges Halt Trump's Removals Under Wartime Law

    Federal judges in Texas and New York barred the Trump administration on Wednesday from deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, after the U.S. Supreme Court said such individuals are entitled to judicial review.

  • April 08, 2025

    Jenner & Block, WilmerHale Seek Shutdown Of Trump Orders

    Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale on Tuesday asked Washington, D.C., federal judges for permanent court orders blocking President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the firms, saying the directives threaten the firms, their clients and the entire legal system.

  • April 08, 2025

    ACLU Sues To Block Deportation Of Venezuelan Nationals

    The American Civil Liberties Union filed an emergency lawsuit on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court seeking to halt the deportation of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act, after the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration can proceed with doing so.

  • April 08, 2025

    Justices Reshape Terrain For Alien Enemies Act Removals

    The U.S. Supreme Court's Monday ruling allowing the Trump administration to resume deportations of alleged gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act has experts relieved that the justices affirmed due process rights, but worried about how and where they will be exercised.

  • April 08, 2025

    DHS Accused Of Illegally Scrapping Foreign Student Records

    Three anonymous current and former international students in the U.S. on F-1 visas are suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, alleging the agency terminated hundreds of student and exchange visitor information system records, effectively stripping them of their ability to remain in the country without due process.

  • April 08, 2025

    ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Withdraws From MoneyGram Suit, NY AG To Continue

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a New York federal judge that it would like to drop out of its Biden-era enforcement lawsuit against MoneyGram International Inc., a move that would leave behind the New York attorney general as the sole plaintiff in the case.

  • April 08, 2025

    IRS Acting Chief To Depart Amid ICE Info Sharing Deal

    The Internal Revenue Service's acting commissioner Melanie Krause plans to step down, the White House confirmed Tuesday, after the agency struck an agreement with immigration enforcement authorities to share taxpayer records of non-U.S. citizens under criminal investigation.

  • April 08, 2025

    Farmworkers Fight To Keep Wages Collective Suit Standing

    A North Carolina federal judge should reject three farms' attempts to detangle a collective and snag an early win in a suit accusing them of failing to reimburse farmworkers for travel and visa expenses, the workers said, standing by claims they said are timely and well-supported.

  • April 08, 2025

    Atty Says Debevoise Fired Him Over Medical Leave

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP fired an attorney in its international dispute resolution practice group because he had taken medical leave, abruptly dismissing him two days after he returned, and refused to give him a chance to increase his billable hours, he told a New York federal court.

  • April 08, 2025

    Justices Halt Order To Reinstate Federal Workers

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday hit pause on a California federal court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired from six agencies, agreeing with the Trump administration that the nonprofit groups that obtained the order lack standing to challenge the firings. 

  • April 07, 2025

    1st Circ. Won't Pause Block Of Unrelated Country Deportation

    The First Circuit on Monday declined to stay a Massachusetts federal judge's order blocking the Trump administration from removing immigrants to countries where they have no prior ties without first providing them with notice of where they are being sent and a "meaningful" opportunity to raise any safety concerns.

  • April 07, 2025

    Homeland Secretary Waives Fed Laws For Calif. Border Wall

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has issued a federal notice that she is waiving a slew of environmental and historical preservation laws to facilitate the construction of a barrier wall and roads in the San Diego area, citing illegal border crossings and drug trafficking.

  • April 07, 2025

    Attys Say Feds Violating Order By Deporting Migrant Kids

    Attorneys challenging cuts to federal funding for groups providing legal representation to unaccompanied immigrant children told a California federal judge Monday that the government is violating the court's injunction by deporting children without representation, while the government says a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling "severely undermines" the court's jurisdiction.

  • April 07, 2025

    Justices Remove Bar On Venezuelan Removals

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled the Trump administration can move forward with its removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act, vacating a D.C. federal judge's order that had temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's invocation of the 1798 wartime law.

  • April 07, 2025

    Fla. Judge Halts State's New Criminal Penalties For Migrants

    A Florida federal court has temporarily barred the Sunshine State from enforcing its new law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized migrants into the state, saying the law is likely preempted by the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.

  • April 07, 2025

    3 Plead To Construction Scheme That Skirted $26M In Taxes

    Three Floridians have pled guilty to a fraud scheme that prosecutors said caused more than $26 million in tax losses, bilked insurance companies and helped employ people unauthorized to work in the United States, according to court filings.

  • April 07, 2025

    Judge Won't Yet Block Columbia From Sharing Student Info

    A Manhattan federal judge declined to issue an order blocking Columbia University from sharing student records with Congress in a suit by detained activist Mahmoud Khalil and others accusing the school of stifling pro-Palestinian views, but said the plaintiffs could revise their request.

  • April 07, 2025

    Justice Roberts Pauses Return Order In Deportation Case

    Chief Justice John Roberts hit pause Monday on a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there, freeing the administration from a late night compliance deadline.

  • April 04, 2025

    Justices Told To Keep 'Century-Old Status Quo' On Birthright

    States, immigrant advocacy groups and expectant mothers urged the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to reject President Donald Trump's bid to restrict nationwide court orders prohibiting implementation of his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that maintaining the long-held understanding of the right won't cause any harm.

  • April 04, 2025

    Detained Tufts Student's Suit Transferred To Vermont

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday transferred a Tufts University student's habeas corpus suit to Vermont, rejecting the federal government's bid to dismiss the suit or transfer it to Louisiana, where the Turkish doctoral student is currently detained.

  • April 04, 2025

    Feds Must Bring Back Wrongly Deported Md. Man, Judge Says

    A Maryland federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to bring back a Maryland man who was deported and imprisoned in El Salvador due to an "administrative error," finding his removal likely violates the Immigration and Nationality Act.

  • April 04, 2025

    DC Judge Wary Of Blocking ICE From Raiding Churches

    The D.C. federal judge who is set to decide whether to block the Trump administration from carrying out immigration raids or arrests in places of worship seemed skeptical Friday morning about her ability to do so.

  • April 04, 2025

    NBC Settles ICE Doctor's Suit Over Hysterectomy Reporting

    NBC Universal and a gynecologist who accused the media company of falsely portraying him as having performed mass unwanted hysterectomies on women detained at an immigration detention center ended their suit on Friday after informing a Georgia federal court of a settlement.

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Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    States Should Loosen Law Firm Ownership Restrictions

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    Despite growing buzz, normalized nonlawyer ownership of law firms is a distant prospect, so the legal community should focus first on liberalizing state restrictions on attorney and firm purchases of practices, which would bolster succession planning and improve access to justice, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.

  • Series

    Solving Puzzles Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Tackling daily puzzles — like Wordle, KenKen and Connections — has bolstered my intellectual property litigation practice by helping me to exercise different mental skills, acknowledge minor but important details, and build and reinforce good habits, says Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer.

  • Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice

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    The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.

  • In Memoriam: The Modern Administrative State

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    On June 28, the modern administrative state, where courts deferred to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, died when the U.S. Supreme Court overruled its previous decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council — but it is survived by many cases decided under the Chevron framework, say Joseph Schaeffer and Jessica Deyoe at Babst Calland.

  • How High Court Approached Time Limit On Reg Challenges

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Corner Post v. Federal Reserve Board effectively gives new entities their own personal statute of limitations to challenge rules and regulations, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh's concurrence may portend the court's view that those entities do not need to be directly regulated, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.

  • How To Clean Up Your Generative AI-Produced Legal Drafts

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    As law firms increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence tools to produce legal text, attorneys should be on guard for the overuse of cohesive devices in initial drafts, and consider a few editing pointers to clean up AI’s repetitive and choppy outputs, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.

  • Series

    After Chevron: Various Paths For Labor And Employment Law

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    Labor and employment law leans heavily on federal agency guidance, so the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to toss out Chevron deference will ripple through this area, with future workplace policies possibly taking shape through strategic litigation, informal guidance, state-level regulation and more, says Alexander MacDonald at Littler.

  • Series

    Boxing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Boxing has influenced my legal work by enabling me to confidently hone the skills I've learned from the sport, like the ability to remain calm under pressure, evaluate an opponent's weaknesses and recognize when to seize an important opportunity, says Kirsten Soto at Clyde & Co.

  • Opinion

    Industry Self-Regulation Will Shine Post-Chevron

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper decision will shape the contours of industry self-regulation in the years to come, providing opportunities for this often-misunderstood practice, says Eric Reicin at BBB National Programs.

  • 3 Ways Agencies Will Keep Making Law After Chevron

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    The U.S. Supreme Court clearly thinks it has done something big in overturning the Chevron precedent that had given deference to agencies' statutory interpretations, but regulated parties have to consider how agencies retain significant power to shape the law and its meaning, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • Roundup

    After Chevron

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    Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference standard in June, this Expert Analysis series has featured attorneys discussing the potential impact across 37 different rulemaking and litigation areas.

  • Opinion

    Atty Well-Being Efforts Ignore Root Causes Of The Problem

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    The legal industry is engaged in a critical conversation about lawyers' mental health, but current attorney well-being programs primarily focus on helping lawyers cope with the stress of excessive workloads, instead of examining whether this work culture is even fundamentally compatible with lawyer well-being, says Jonathan Baum at Avenir Guild.

  • Series

    Skiing And Surfing Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I’ve learned while riding waves in the ocean and slopes in the mountains have translated to my legal career — developing strong mentor relationships, remaining calm in difficult situations, and being prepared and able to move to a backup plan when needed, says Brian Claassen at Knobbe Martens.

  • Justices' Removal Ruling Presents Hurdles, But Offers Clarity

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Campos-Chaves v. Garland and two other consolidated cases endorses a multistep notice practice that could impair noncitizens' access to adequate judicial notice, but its resolution of a longstanding circuit split also provides much-needed clarity, says Devin Connolly at Reeves Immigration Law Group.

  • Unpacking The Circuit Split Over A Federal Atty Fee Rule

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    Federal circuit courts that have addressed Rule 41(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are split as to whether attorney fees are included as part of the costs of a previously dismissed action, so practitioners aiming to recover or avoid fees should tailor arguments to the appropriate court, says Joseph Myles and Lionel Lavenue at Finnegan.

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