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July 10, 2026
The full Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated a roughly week-old split panel decision holding that the Trump administration can't hold noncitizens for more than 90 days without a bond hearing, and said it will rehear the matter.
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July 10, 2026
A Washington federal judge rejected claims from GEO Group that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement controls access to an ICE detention center in the state and ordered GEO to allow state inspectors into portions of the center it controls.
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July 10, 2026
After a cascade of unpredictable immigration policies in the first half of the year, immigration attorneys are bracing for more uncertainty through the year's end regarding final rules fixing the admission period for students, increasing prevailing wage rates and more. Here, Law360 looks at six policy issues that could feature prominently in the second half of 2026.
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July 10, 2026
A California federal judge blocked the Trump administration from imposing grant funding conditions on California and Oregon municipalities concerning immigration enforcement and its opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, finding the conditions likely encroach on Congress' spending powers.
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July 09, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing claims that federal immigration agents indiscriminately target Latinos in Southern California asked the parties during a Thursday hearing to brief her on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Mullin v. Doe ruling, which the government said could doom plaintiffs' equal protection claim.
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July 09, 2026
Clashes over the Trump administration's bid to void California's vehicle emissions standards, federal restrictions on commercial drivers' licenses for foreign truckers and Boeing 737 Max securities litigation involving class certification standards are among the court battles that transportation attorneys are monitoring in the latter half of 2026.
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July 09, 2026
The Third Circuit seemed skeptical of the federal government's argument Thursday that it had no obligation to offer immigrant detainees virtual access to state criminal courts, questioning whether the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was denying detainees' rights to a speedy trial or access to evidence.
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July 09, 2026
A 62-year-old Massachusetts man was detained for two days last year by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement despite offering proof that he was in the country legally, according to a suit filed Thursday in federal court.
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July 09, 2026
After a series of blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court rulings greenlighting significant components of President Donald Trump's immigration agenda in the first half of the year, lower courts are poised to other test key policies, including the $100,000 H-1B visa fee, the administration's 75-country immigrant visa ban and the end of automatic extensions for expiring work permits.
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July 09, 2026
Two men with temporary agricultural work visas said Thursday they have settled their forced labor lawsuit against blueberry farm entities in Michigan federal court, after alleging that they were trafficked to Michigan and subjected to "brutal" work conditions.
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July 09, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge has been asked to certify a class of migrants alleging they were tricked into boarding flights from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in a political stunt.
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July 09, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge dismissed a detained Egyptian national's habeas petition as moot even as he expressed concern about the "heavy-handed manner" in which the U.S. government had conducted the asylum-seeker's immigration proceedings.
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July 09, 2026
A former Wisconsin state judge convicted of obstructing immigration authorities trying to arrest a defendant after he appeared in her courtroom lodged an appeal before the Seventh Circuit on Thursday, after avoiding a prison sentence but being fined $5,000.
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July 08, 2026
The Second Circuit on Wednesday said an immigration judge failed to consider the possible abuse a man fighting deportation could face in El Salvadoran prisons because of inhumane conditions and human rights abuses.
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July 08, 2026
President Donald Trump's immigration agenda has largely prevailed in federal courts so far this year, with one glaring exception: when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his birthright citizenship executive order as unconstitutional. Here, Law360 examines five of the year's most significant decisions in immigration litigation so far.
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July 08, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, with the backing of Arizona's top legislative leaders, is seeking to dismiss the Tohono O'odham Nation's bid to block construction of 62 miles of border wall, arguing it's well within its authority to build the structure to address national and public safety threats.
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July 08, 2026
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago has agreed that a group of anti-ICE protesters whose criminal case was dismissed when prosecutorial misconduct before the grand jury that indicted them came to light is entitled to recover attorney fees, but argued Tuesday that their bid to conduct discovery into any bad faith by the government amounted to a "fishing expedition."
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July 08, 2026
The Board of Immigration Appeals said a fear of conscription alone was not enough to establish that a Russian man was a refugee facing persecution in his home country, overturning an immigration judge's decision that granted him asylum.
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July 08, 2026
The Trump administration told a D.C. federal court that it acted within its statutory authority to detain noncitizens at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba who've been ordered to be deported, arguing their presence outside U.S. borders doesn't mean removal has already been completed.
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July 08, 2026
A former Wisconsin state judge on Wednesday was fined $5,000 but will not serve prison time for obstructing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest of a defendant in her courtroom by directing him down a private hallway away from agents before he was later captured.
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July 08, 2026
A federal judge's ruling on whether the Trump administration can move U.S. Space Command's headquarters from Colorado to Alabama and a jury's determination of liability for a private prison operator in a forced labor class action are among the Colorado court cases to watch in the coming months. Here, Law360 looks at four Colorado cases to watch for during the rest of 2026.
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July 07, 2026
Immigration policy in the first half of 2026 was confusing and unpredictable as attorneys navigated sudden and drastic policy shifts, including a requirement for green card hopefuls to apply from abroad and a freeze on immigration benefits for people from countries under a travel ban.
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July 07, 2026
A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday said a New York federal judge reasonably imposed a supervised release condition that would require a Salvadoran citizen sentenced to prison in connection with an MS-13 gang shooting to cooperate with immigration authorities.
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July 07, 2026
Mead Johnson is set to go to trial this summer in the first case to make it to a jury in multidistrict litigation claiming baby formula caused a serious gut illness in premature infants, while the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago is facing a possible sanctions hearing over prosecutorial misconduct allegations in two Illinois cases on attorneys' radar for the rest of the year.
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July 07, 2026
The Trump administration is giving the Iranian government the confidential information of Iranians seeking asylum in the United States, ignoring risks to the asylum-seekers' safety, a legal advocacy group alleges in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in D.C. federal court.