California Attorney General Rob Bonta released a report detailing severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and six deaths at state immigrant detention centers during a surge in federal detentions.
“Cruel, inhumano e inaceptable”: el fiscal general Bonta publica el quinto informe sobre las condiciones en los centros de detención de inmigrantes de California
DETROIT (LN) — The Sixth Circuit held that noncitizens living in the U.S. interior without lawful status are not subject to mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) and are entitled to individualized bond hearings under 8...
Juan Sanchez Alvarez v. Kristi Noem
The panel affirmed a 118-day extension of a consent decree governing ICE warrantless arrests but reversed an order releasing approximately 200 potential class members, while upholding the release of 13 confirmed class members.
Margarito Castanon Nava v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
An Illinois appellate panel has ruled that a government contractor accused of sharing employee fingerprint data with a third-party payroll vendor cannot invoke the Biometric Information Privacy Act's government contractor exemption...
Thomas v. Cornerstone Services, Inc.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument Wednesday in Blanche v. Lau, addressing how immigration officers classify lawful permanent residents accused of crimes that could trigger removal from the country.
Justices debate rights of lawful permanent residents against backdrop of Trump’s immigration crackdown
A divided Eleventh Circuit held that a state-funded, state-constructed immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades did not trigger the National Environmental Policy Act because the facility lacked the federal control and final...
Friends of the Everglades, Inc. v. Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
A divided Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court held that the state's near-total exclusion of abortion from Medicaid coverage violates both the state Equal Rights Amendment and the state constitution's equal protection guarantees, permanently...
Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. PA DHS
A permanent resident held since August 2023 sits at the center of a Ninth Circuit dispute over whether the court should vacate his removal order outright or send the case back to the BIA — a choice with significant res judicata...
Vasquez-Calix v. Blanche
The Tenth Circuit denied Frontier Airlines' petition for review of a final order by the Transportation Security Administration upholding a liability of $5,377,584.15 for unpaid security service fees. The dispute centered on whether the...
Frontier Airlines v. Department of Homeland Security
The Fourth Circuit reversed the conviction of a noncitizen who escaped ICE custody to prevent his deportation, holding that the execution of a removal warrant does not constitute a pending proceeding under the federal obstruction statute.
U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso granted a preliminary injunction in Rosado v. Bondi, holding that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin likely violated the First Amendment by coercing...
Rosado et al v. Bondi et al
The First Circuit reversed the Board of Immigration Appeals’ denial of adjustment of status for a Venezuelan national, holding that the agency engaged in impermissible de novo factfinding rather than reviewing the Immigration Judge’s...
The D.C. Circuit upheld the Transportation Security Administration's decision to maintain Saad bin Khalid on the No Fly List, rejecting his constitutional and statutory challenges to the listing and the agency's redress process.
The Supreme Court will determine whether immigration officers must have clear and convincing evidence that a lawful permanent resident committed a disqualifying crime at the time of reentry, or if the government can rely on evidence...
Court to consider rights of lawful permanent residents accused of committing a crime
A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of California has curtailed the scope of discovery in a certified class action accusing U.S. Border Patrol of conducting suspicionless stops and warrantless arrests during large-scale...
United Farm Workers, et al v. Noem, et al.
A coalition of attorneys general argues in a new amicus brief that ending three decades of Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants would cause irreparable harm to families, state economies, and public safety — and that DHS has...
Attorney General Bonta Defends Temporary Protected Status for Immigrants from Somalia
A divided D.C. Circuit panel issued a writ of mandamus Tuesday terminating the district court's criminal contempt investigation into the Trump administration's March 2025 transfer of alleged Tren de Aragua members to Salvadoran custody...
A federal judge in Washington has ordered a putative class action alleging systematic race discrimination against African American air marshals to be moved to Virginia, where both sides agree the case belongs.
Parks v. Mullin