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March 31, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration has broad authority to mass terminate parole, but failed to justify canceling parole for hundreds of thousands of noncitizens who used a government app to be admitted to the U.S.
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March 31, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel admonished an attorney and former chief federal immigration judge for submitting a brief citing two nonexistent cases and a false quotation, saying while such errors can be "tell-tale signs" of AI hallucinations, her denial she used AI is "plausible" and the court won't consider further sanctions.
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March 31, 2026
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is looking for assurances from the newly installed secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, that he will honor his apparent pledge to rescind a policy that allows immigration agents to enter private property without a judicial warrant.
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March 31, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection violated federal contracting law when it awarded a $641 million contract to construct waterborne barriers in the Rio Grande Valley without conducting a competitive bidding process, a joint venture told the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Monday.
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March 31, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge overstepped his authority in ordering the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide deportees being sent to so-called "third" countries where they have no prior ties an opportunity to challenge their destinations, the Trump administration told the First Circuit.
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March 31, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday denied a request from environmental nonprofits to allow a lower court's order halting operations of a Florida immigrant detention facility, saying in a split decision that new issues were improperly raised for the first time.
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March 31, 2026
Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC has announced that an immigration attorney with nearly 30 years of experience has joined the firm's Boston office as senior counsel, along with three members of support staff.
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March 31, 2026
A Virginia federal judge has overturned the sale of an immigration bond company found liable for predatory lending practices, ruling the transaction knowingly violated the terms of an $811 million judgment entered just days before the deal was signed.
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March 31, 2026
The Trump administration told a D.C. federal court that an app maker cannot support his claims that the administration coerced Apple to remove an app letting users report sightings of immigration enforcement authorities, noting Apple had independent authority to do so.
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March 30, 2026
The Trump administration Monday urged the Ninth Circuit to pause a lower court's declaration that immigration judges have the authority to hear detained immigrants' bond requests, slamming the ruling as a "frontal assault" on the government's authority to detain immigrants and arguing it's creating "judicial chaos" across the country.
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March 30, 2026
A D.C. federal judge on Monday vacated six immigration court fee increases unveiled in 2020, finding the Executive Office for Immigration Review failed to consider how the fee spikes would affect the legal services providers like the ones that sued to block them.
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March 30, 2026
The federal government urged a New York federal court to toss allegations that the Trump administration is using a surveillance system to find viewpoints it doesn't like and use the threat of immigration enforcement to suppress speech, arguing the unions behind the suit lack standing to bring their claims.
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March 30, 2026
An ex-Yale student suing the university and a sexual assault accuser engaged in "repeated and escalating" litigation misconduct including violating anonymity orders and withholding key information from numerous courts, warranting dismissal as a punishment, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled in tossing the case.
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March 30, 2026
A Florida federal judge is ordering state and federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to facilitate attorney access for noncitizens detained at the informal Everglades detention facility, finding that there are several existing barriers preventing confidential attorney-client communications.
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March 30, 2026
A Manhattan federal jury on Monday awarded $8.4 million to a New York University professor and former Cognizant Technology Solutions employee who claimed he was fired in retaliation for alleging the information technology company engaged in systematic hiring bias.
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March 30, 2026
A collection of local officials, religious leaders and civil rights groups is urging a federal judge to extend a pause on work to convert a Maryland warehouse into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center that could hold up to 1,500 people a day.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Ninth Circuit decision that a district court lacked authority to second-guess U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's denial of a U visa holder's bid to become a lawful permanent resident.
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March 27, 2026
A Minnesota federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to restore attorney access at the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis in an order torching the government for legal misstatements and discrediting a key government witness.
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March 27, 2026
An Arizona federal judge has rejected two environmental groups' constitutional arguments against a waiver under which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had permitted 41 miles of border wall construction to be exempted from legal restrictions.
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March 27, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its March oral arguments session by hearing a nationwide class's blockbuster challenge to President Donald Trump's limited view of birthright citizenship, as well as a dispute over federal courts' authority to confirm or vacate arbitration awards in cases they've formerly overseen.
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March 27, 2026
A coalition of states told a federal judge that the Trump administration appears to have ignored an order limiting the types of Medicaid data that can be shared with immigration officials, potentially handing over reams of "off limits" data on citizens and green card holders.
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March 27, 2026
A California appellate panel has vacated an immigrant's jury-trial conviction for assault with attempt to commit rape, finding his lawyers did not tell him about a change in case law that opened the door to an immigration-safe plea that there is a "reasonable possibility" he would have sought instead of trial.
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March 27, 2026
A Manhattan federal jury weighed claims Friday that Cognizant Technology Solutions fired a New York University professor for complaining about hiring bias, after a lawyer for the company called him a troublesome employee who has no contemporaneous evidence of his concerns.
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March 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule that could drive roughly $6.5 billion in additional annual wages to foreign workers by overhauling how prevailing pay is calculated across high-skilled visa programs.
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March 27, 2026
The House voted 213-203 on Friday night on a clean extension of funding for all operations of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, rebuking the Senate, which passed by voice vote in the early hours of Friday morning a bill to fund most of the department except the immigration components.