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April 09, 2025
Student From China Says DHS Stripped Visa Status After DUI
A doctoral student from China studying at the University of Washington is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, claiming the federal government unilaterally terminated his Student and Exchange Visitor Information System record based on a pending DUI arrest without conviction, exposing him to potential removal from the U.S.
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April 09, 2025
Tire Co. In Talks With EEOC To Resolve Harassment Case
The owner of a Massachusetts scrap tire facility and the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission are in the process of drafting an agreement to resolve allegations that Hispanic workers faced harassment and threats on the job, then were fired in retaliation for striking, according to a Wednesday filing.
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April 09, 2025
IRS Acting Chief To Stay On Through Mid-May, Treasury Says
The Internal Revenue Service's interim leader, Melanie Krause, will stay at her post through May 15, the U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday, after she and other officials reportedly said they would resign following an IRS agreement to share taxpayer information with immigration enforcement agencies.
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April 09, 2025
Feds Seek Judge's Recusal In Migrant Kids Legal Services Row
The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to recuse a California federal judge overseeing a challenge to its decision to cut funding for child migrant legal services programs, saying the judge previously worked as a managing attorney for the lead plaintiff and is therefore biased.
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April 09, 2025
Texas County Says HHS Is Unlawfully Freezing Refugee Funds
Texas' Harris County, which includes Houston, has joined a growing group of programs accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully freezing federal funds, writing that the administration is attempting to "starve" its refugee resettlement programs by cutting off funding already authorized by Congress.
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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.
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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.Â
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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April 08, 2025
ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.Â
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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A Primer On Navigating The Conrad 30 Immigration Program
As the Conrad 30 program opens its annual window to help place immigrant physicians in medically underserved areas, employers and physicians engaged in the process must carefully understand the program's nuanced requirements, say Andrew Desposito and Greg Berk at Sheppard Mullin.
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Opinion
AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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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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Series
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.