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May 13, 2025
Snubbing Migrant Law Order Isn't Contempt, Fla. AG Says
Florida's attorney general has argued that he should not be held in contempt for telling law enforcement agencies he could not force them to comply with a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a state law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized immigrants.
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May 13, 2025
8th Circ. Holds Guatemalan Failed To Show Removal Hardship
The Eighth Circuit has denied a Guatemalan national's attempt to reopen his removal proceedings after his child was born in the U.S., holding the Board of Immigration Appeals made no mistake in finding he failed to demonstrate eligibility for cancellation of removal.
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May 12, 2025
ICE Hits LA County With Subpoena Over Noncitizen Benefits
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday it has issued a sweeping subpoena to Los Angeles County, demanding records — including immigration status — for recipients of California's Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants.
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May 12, 2025
DC Judge Declines To Block IRS From Sharing Info With ICE
A D.C. federal judge rejected Monday a trio of immigration advocacy groups' request to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing with immigration enforcement agencies the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.
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May 12, 2025
DHS To Terminate Temporary Protections For Afghans
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is terminating temporary protections for Afghan nationals, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Monday, saying that conditions in the country do not meet the requirements for a temporary protected status designation.
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May 12, 2025
Wiretap Evidence Allowed In $200M Forced Labor Case
A Georgia federal judge has accepted a magistrate judge's recommendation that wiretap evidence be allowed into the prosecution of an alleged $200 million international forced labor scheme.
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May 12, 2025
Will Justices Finally Rein In Universal Injunctions?
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
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May 12, 2025
Meet The Attys Defending NJ Mayor In ICE Facility Case
One of New Jersey's most high-powered criminal defense attorneys is among a trio of litigators defending Newark Mayor Ras Baraka against charges related to his arrest last week at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in the city.
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May 09, 2025
Trump's Latest Sanctuary City Order Can't Avoid Injunction
A California federal judge on Friday clarified that the Trump administration can't use the president's latest executive order targeting sanctuary cities and counties to evade a preliminary injunction blocking it from withholding federal funds from the local governments.
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May 09, 2025
Calif. Judge Blocks Trump's Gov't Reorganization, Job Cuts
A California federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked federal agencies and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from carrying out President Donald Trump's directive to reduce the government workforce, saying the president doesn't have the constitutional or statutory authority "to reorganize the executive branch."
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May 09, 2025
Biden-Era Asylum Restrictions Mostly Struck Down
A D.C. federal judge on Friday largely vacated a Biden-era rule that generally requires noncitizens to make an appointment through the CBP One mobile app at a port of entry to be eligible for asylum, finding it contravenes federal immigration law.
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May 09, 2025
DC Circ. Tosses DOD's Time-In-Service Appeal As Moot
A D.C. Circuit panel ruled Friday that the U.S. Department of Defense cannot appeal to defend a since-rescinded policy setting service duration requirements for noncitizen soldiers to pursue an expedited path to citizenship.
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May 09, 2025
Immigrants Find Workers' Rights Behind Bars
Immigration detainees are bringing about a sea change in workers’ rights behind bars, chipping away at the assumption that people in civil detention or in prison fall outside the reach of minimum wage laws and protections against forced labor.
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May 09, 2025
Columbia Student Protester Is Free For Now, 2nd Circ. Says
The Second Circuit on Friday said Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, arrested by immigration officials for his pro-Palestinian activism, can remain free as he fights an attempt to put him back behind bars amid deportation proceedings in Louisiana.
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May 09, 2025
Souter's Clerks Remember Him As Humble, Kind And Caring
Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.
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May 09, 2025
AG Fights Ex-Immigration Judge's Disability Bias Claim In Fla.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi pushed back Friday on a former immigration judge's bid for a disability discrimination ruling in her favor, telling a Florida federal court that her requested transfer wasn't approved since there were no vacancies in her desired Orlando court during her tenure.
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May 09, 2025
Group Urges Justices To Uphold Protections For Venezuelans
The National TPS Alliance urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let be a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration from repealing temporary protected status for Venezuelans, saying U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's vacatur contravened the TPS statute.
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May 09, 2025
Hiker And 'Raconteur': Atty Recalls 50-Year Bond With Souter
Behind a towering legal legacy was a man who loved to hike mountains, could recall details of things he read decades ago and was always there for those he cared about, a New Hampshire attorney said as he reflected on a lifelong friendship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
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May 09, 2025
A Look At David Souter's Most Significant Opinions
The retired Justice David Souter defied simple definition, viewed as a staunch conservative until he co-wrote an opinion upholding abortion rights in 1992. He did not hew to partisan lines, but reshaped the civil litigation landscape and took an unexpected stand in an extraordinarily close presidential election.
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May 09, 2025
Tufts Student Wins Bail As Judge Cites Free-Speech Concerns
A Vermont federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of a Tufts University doctoral student taken into custody outside her home in March by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying RĂĽmeysa Ă–ztĂĽrk had raised "very substantial claims of due process and First Amendment violations" by the government.
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May 09, 2025
Justice Souter Was An Unexpected Force Of Moderation
Justice David Souter, who saw the high court as a moderating force apart from the messiness of politics, subverted the expectations of liberals and conservatives alike during his 19 years on the bench.
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May 09, 2025
Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter Dies At 85
Retired Justice David H. Souter, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1990 to 2009, has died at 85, the court announced Friday.Â
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May 08, 2025
Trump Can't Do 'End Run' To Stop Funds To Sanctuary Cities
A California federal judge said Thursday he's inclined to issue a clarification to his April 24 preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from "sanctuary" jurisdictions, saying he doesn't want an executive order President Trump issued April 28 used as an "end run" around it.
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May 08, 2025
ICE Award Termination Dooms Protest, GAO Says
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has dismissed a private investigation company's protest of a deal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement terminated after the protest began, refusing to rule on the company's contention that ICE terminated the deal to avoid review.
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May 08, 2025
Solicitor General Urges Justices To Let Immigrant Parole End
Solicitor General D. John Sauer on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to halt a Boston federal judge's order blocking the Trump administration from ending the parole status of nearly half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Expert Analysis
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A Class Action Trend Tests Limit Of Courts' Equity Powers
A troubling trend has developed in federal class action litigation as some counsel and judges attempt to push injunctive relief classes under Rule 23(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure beyond the traditional limits of federal courts' equitable powers, say attorneys at Jones Day.
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Series
Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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After Chevron: Courts Will Still Defer To Feds On Nat'l Security
Agencies with trade responsibilities may be less affected by Chevron’s demise because of the special deference courts have shown when hearing international trade cases involving national security, foreign policy or the president’s constitutional authority to direct such matters, say attorneys at Venable.
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What 7th Circ. Collective Actions Ruling Means For Employers
With the Seventh Circuit’s recent Fair Labor Standards Act ruling in Vanegas v. Signet Builders, a majority of federal appellate courts that have addressed the jurisdictional scope of employee collective actions now follow the U.S. Supreme Court's limiting precedent, bolstering an employer defense in circuits that have yet to weigh in, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President
For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.
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Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.
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5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond
As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.
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Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer
My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.
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How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'
Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.
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Opinion
Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process
Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.