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March 25, 2025
Judge Temporarily Blocks ICE Detention Of Columbia Student
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to temporarily refrain from detaining a 21-year-old Columbia University student and legal permanent resident who says she was targeted for deportation for attending a demonstration against the college's response to protests over the war in Gaza.
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March 25, 2025
Jenner & Block Latest BigLaw Firm Targeted In Trump Order
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at Jenner & Block LLP, suspending security clearances for its employees and taking other actions in response to the firm's pro bono work and a former partner's role as a top deputy to former special counsel Robert Mueller.
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March 25, 2025
Judge Mulls Limits On Columbia Sharing Info With Congress
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday considered whether to limit Columbia University's sharing of student records with Congress after students there, including detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, claimed the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to "punish and suppress" pro-Palestinian views.
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March 24, 2025
Columbia Student Asks Court To Block Deportation Efforts
A Columbia University student who is a legal permanent resident claimed Monday that the Trump administration was trying to arrest and deport her simply because she attended protests against the Israel-Hamas war, a clear violation of the First Amendment, according to a suit filed in New York federal court.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice
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.
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In Memoriam: The Modern Administrative State
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.
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How High Court Approached Time Limit On Reg Challenges
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.
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How To Clean Up Your Generative AI-Produced Legal Drafts
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.
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Series
After Chevron: Various Paths For Labor And Employment Law
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.
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Series
Boxing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
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.
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Opinion
Industry Self-Regulation Will Shine Post-Chevron
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.
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3 Ways Agencies Will Keep Making Law After Chevron
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.
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Roundup
After Chevron
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.
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Opinion
Atty Well-Being Efforts Ignore Root Causes Of The Problem
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.
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Series
Skiing And Surfing Make Me A Better Lawyer
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.
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Justices' Removal Ruling Presents Hurdles, But Offers Clarity
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.
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Unpacking The Circuit Split Over A Federal Atty Fee Rule
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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After A Brief Hiccup, The 'Rocket Docket' Soars Back To No. 1
The Eastern District of Virginia’s precipitous 2022 fall from its storied rocket docket status appears to have been a temporary aberration, as recent statistics reveal that the court is once again back on top as the fastest federal civil trial court in the nation, says Robert Tata at Hunton.
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Recruitment Trends In Emerging Law Firm Frontiers
BigLaw firms are facing local recruitment challenges as they increasingly establish offices in cities outside of the major legal hubs, requiring them to weigh various strategies for attracting talent that present different risks and benefits, says Tom Hanlon at Buchanan Law.