A California federal judge on Monday temporarily halted U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's attempt to end temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, calling it an "unprecedented action" that is likely "unauthorized by law, arbitrary and capricious, and motivated by unconstitutional animus."
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Venezuelans Can Keep DHS Removal Protections For Now

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge on Monday temporarily halted U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's attempt to end temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, calling it an "unprecedented action" that is likely "unauthorized by law, arbitrary and capricious, and motivated by unconstitutional animus."

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Analysis

DOJ Seeking Steep Costs To Make Challengers Think Twice

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Department of Justice is quickly implementing President Donald Trump's plan to seek huge sums of money from litigants whose cases impede his agenda but ultimately prove unsuccessful, court records show.

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Minimum Wage Orders Blocked For H-2A Farmworkers In Wash.

By Emily Brill

The U.S. Department of Labor may not approve minimum wage job orders for migrant farmworkers in Washington state, a federal judge has ruled, saying seasonal farmworkers with H-2A visas must receive paychecks that don't depress agricultural wages in the area.

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Immigrant Groups Sue Over New DHS Registration Rule

By Madeline Lyskawa

Immigrant rights groups sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in D.C. federal court Monday, seeking to challenge the agency's interim final rule requiring unauthorized immigrants to register with the federal government or face criminal prosecution.

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LITIGATION

Migrants Can't Sue DeSantis In Mass., Judge Reaffirms

By Julie Manganis

A group of asylum-seeking Venezuelan migrants who say they were lured into boarding flights to Massachusetts by associates of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis more than two years ago still cannot pursue most of their claims in the Bay State, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

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DocGo Can't Nix Investor Suit Over 'Indisputably False' Claims

By Dorothy Atkins

A New York federal judge has trimmed a proposed class action alleging that mobile medical provider DocGo and its top brass misled stockholders before its $432 million migrant-services contract with New York City faced public scrutiny, but the judge found that claims stemming from the former CEO's "indisputably false" statements can proceed.

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PEOPLE

Ex-Sen. Sinema Joins Hogan Lovells' Regulatory Group

By Jack Rodgers

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who made headlines by changing her party affiliation from Democrat to independent in 2022, will join Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., as a senior adviser in its global regulatory and intellectual property practice groups, the firm announced Monday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind

As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Retired Wash. Supreme Court Justice Susan Owens Dies At 75

By Rachel Riley

Former Washington State Supreme Court Justice Susan Owens has died at 75 after closing the book in December on a 44-year legal career, including an almost quarter-century on the state's high court.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships

When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.

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Ex-DHS Intel Head To Lead Mayer Brown Investigations Team

By Jack Rodgers

The former leader of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's intelligence office has joined Mayer Brown LLP to help lead its global investigations and white collar defense practice — a role that he says allows him to join forces with attorneys whom he's known for years.

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The Top In-House Hires Of March

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the last month included high-profile appointments at the NFL, Supermicro and Dropbox. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from March.

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Hub Hires: Ropes, Sherin, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

March gave us a little madness in the Boston legal scene, with a former U.S. attorney returning to his old BigLaw stomping grounds, a smaller firm bringing on a real estate veteran, and the launch of a new plaintiff-side boutique.

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BCLP Names New COO And Chief People Officer

By Kevin Penton

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has hired Newmark Group's former chief human resources officer as its chief people officer and shifted its chief financial officer to also serve as its chief operating officer, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Willkie Becomes 3rd Firm To Reach Deal With Trump

By Alison Knezevich

After issuing a string of executive orders in recent weeks targeting BigLaw firms, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services for certain causes and to refrain from what Trump has called discriminatory diversity hiring practices.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin Gump

Alston & Bird

Baker & Hostetler

Barnard Iglitzin

Boies Schiller

Brewer Attorneys

Brown Raysman

Bryan Cave

Cadwalader Wickersham

Campbell Conroy

Consovoy McCarthy

Covington & Burling

Davis Polk

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dentons

Donnelly Conroy

Finn Dixon

Foley Hoag

Gibson Dunn

Goldstein & Russell

Goodwin Procter

GrayRobinson

Greenberg Traurig

Gupta Wessler

Hogan Lovells

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Mayer Brown

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Robbins Geller

Ropes & Gray

Sherin & Lodgen

Skadden Arps

Torridon Law

VanOverbeke Michaud

Venable LLP

Weil Gotshal

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Zimmer Citron

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alianza

American Civil Liberties Union

American Federation of Government Employees

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

American Immigration Council Inc.

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Andreessen Horowitz LLC

Apple Inc.

Arizona Cardinals

Association of Corporate Counsel

Bitcoin Depot

Boost Mobile LLC

Catholic Charities Fort Worth

Columbia Legal Services

Comcast Corp.

DISH Network Corp.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Dropbox Inc.

Eli Lilly & Co.

Fox Corp.

Global NAPs Networks Inc.

Green Bay Packers

InterDigital Inc.

KFC Corp.

KPMG International

Las Vegas Raiders LLC

Make the Road New York

McDonald's Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

MoneyGram International Inc.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Council of Nonprofits

National Immigration Law Center

National Urban League

Nokia Corp.

Salary.com

Sling TV LLC

Spotify Technology SA

Super Micro Computer Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Tyson Foods Inc.

UCLA School of Law

United Farm Workers

Verizon Communications Inc.

Whole Foods Market Inc.

iHeartMedia Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arizona Supreme Court

City of New York

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe

Social Security Administration

State of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget