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June 04, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday proposed rolling back work authorization for noncitizens paroled into the country, along with recipients of deferred action and those with final removal orders released on orders of supervision.
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June 04, 2026
A Washington federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to pay $41,000 in attorney fees in a habeas case and blasted its contention that a lesser amount was warranted after it failed to meaningfully defend the unlawful detention of an asylum-seeker from Afghanistan.
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June 04, 2026
Two federal immigration attorney-advisers have filed a proposed class action accusing the U.S. Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review of violating the Rehabilitation Act by denying them telework accommodations for their disabilities.
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June 04, 2026
A California federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to allow San Diego County officials to complete a health and safety inspection of the Otay Mesa immigrant detention center.
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June 03, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a Brazilian man's convictions in Washington state for having multiple guns, ammunition and an unregistered silencer, rejecting his argument that silencers are protected "arms" under the Second Amendment.
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June 03, 2026
It's true that Jennifer Bennett is undefeated at the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's also an understatement. Bennett's five wins, including two recent ones, were all unanimous decisions. They showed that the plaintiffs bar can still persuade a conservative supermajority. And they turned the tide after a spree of decisions keeping workers and consumers out of court.
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June 03, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday temporarily suspended two California immigration attorneys from practicing before the appellate court for filing briefs in a deportation relief case containing artificial intelligence-generated hallucinations, finding no excuse for their "extraordinary confession" of not vetting citations used by unlicensed brief writers.
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June 03, 2026
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told U.S. senators on Tuesday that his agency would "be happy to send" Kilmar Ábrego García to Costa Rica, and attorneys for the once-wrongfully deported Salvadoran national are now using the comment in court.
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June 03, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge considering whether to block a new Trump administration rule that could kick millions of public sector and nonprofit employees out of a student loan forgiveness program repeatedly pressed a government lawyer Wednesday on the precise criteria the U.S. Department of Education would use to decide who is no longer eligible.
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June 03, 2026
A Colorado personal injury law firm gave faulty legal advice to two clients regarding the filing of their immigration documents and caused them to lose their ability to lawfully work in the United States, the former clients alleged in Colorado state court.
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June 03, 2026
A man detained at a Denver protest for displaying anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement messages on the Colorado Supreme Court building said law enforcement violated his rights by citing him under an unrelated "commercial-advertising regulation," according to a complaint filed in Colorado state court Monday.
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June 03, 2026
A former Wisconsin state judge who directed a defendant away from her courtroom to evade immigration agents told a federal court Wednesday that a recent Fourth Circuit ruling overturning a Salvadoran man's obstruction conviction in a separate case should erode the basis for her own conviction.
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June 03, 2026
A Sixth Circuit panel on Wednesday examined whether a $450,000 punitive damages award in a farmworker trafficking case can stand when the jury awarded only economic damages, and whether a trial judge properly handled an unusual incident involving a spectator whose presence allegedly affected a plaintiff's testimony.
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June 03, 2026
A Salvadoran national previously designated as an unaccompanied alien child upon arriving in the U.S. without authorization and who later obtained special immigrant juvenile status is still subject to mandatory detention during removal proceedings, the Board of Immigration Appeals has ruled.
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June 02, 2026
The Northern District of Illinois' top prosecutor sought to offer clarity Tuesday surrounding accusations of his possible interference with grand jury proceedings that preceded a criminal conspiracy indictment against six protesters, releasing a special report one defendant's attorney says raises more questions than it answers.
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June 02, 2026
The Trump administration urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to end the 30-year-old Flores settlement governing the custody of detained immigrant children, arguing there have been "enormous" changes to migration patterns and the law, and federal courts should not be micromanaging the government's immigration practices by enforcing an "outdated policy preference."
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June 02, 2026
New Jersey sued the owner and operator of immigration detention center Delaney Hall in state court on Tuesday, accusing the contractor of violating state law by blocking health officials from inspecting the center.
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June 02, 2026
A former immigration attorney who resigned from the Washington State Bar Association last week has denied disciplinary counsel's accusations that she duped clients, delegated legal work to nonlawyers at her firm, filed visa applications she knew were not viable, and directed staff to put her signature on documents she never reviewed.
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June 02, 2026
Immigration attorneys are bracing for heightened scrutiny after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it would crack down on attorneys filing fraudulent asylum claims, expressing fears that the agency could blur the line between fraud and legitimate advocacy.
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June 02, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of State from imposing a nationality-based immigrant visa pause on a Bangladeshi man seeking to come to the U.S. to support his elderly and ailing U.S. citizen father, ruling that the challenged pause is likely unlawful.
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June 02, 2026
The Permanent Court of Arbitration has denied Rwanda's $135 million (£100 million) claim against the United Kingdom after the U.K. scrapped a controversial migrant agreement saying it would pay the African country to take in asylum-seekers who originally appeared on British shores.
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June 02, 2026
The Seventh Circuit has rejected a Mexican citizen's petition challenging an immigration court's removal order on the merits, while sanctioning his attorney $5,000 for filing two legal briefs "riddled with" fabricated quotes and case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT.
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June 02, 2026
Jeremiah Johnson was fired from his job as an immigration judge without any warning in November, along with several of his colleagues. He says the terminations point to larger structural problems within the immigration court system, which is overseen by the Department of Justice and subject to the shifting whims of different administrations.
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June 02, 2026
A Salvadoran national who previously lost his bid to avoid removal was too late in seeking to reopen his case before an immigration appeals board, the Tenth Circuit has ruled, rejecting his arguments over why his motion should still be deemed timely.
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June 01, 2026
A bankruptcy trustee may continue to pursue claims that a lender violated an oral amendment to a loan agreement, a former executive for a Dunkin' franchisee cannot push his case to Delaware, and a law firm hired to represent an investment fund is not responsible for the revocation of a visa for one of the fund's co-founders after he was terminated, judges in Suffolk County's Business Litigation Session concluded in May.