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• March 27, 2026

  Up Next At High Court: Birthright Citizenship, Arbitration

  The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its March oral arguments session by hearing a nationwide class' 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.

• March 26, 2026

  Groups Can't Undo Deal Paying El Salvador To Jail Deportees

  A D.C. federal judge has tossed immigrant advocacy groups' bid to vacate the United States' deal with El Salvador to imprison deported noncitizens in exchange for money, finding that they lacked standing since vacatur wouldn't stop deportation as the power to remove is grounded under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

• March 25, 2026

  Wash. Panel Revives Prison Drug Swab Suit

  A Washington state appeals court has partially revived a lawsuit brought by incarcerated people who claim their constitutional rights were violated by prison officials who used tests known to produce false positives to enforce a random drug testing policy inside state prisons.

• March 25, 2026

  Mich. Judge Lets Brothers' Wrongful Conviction Suit Proceed

  A Michigan federal judge has denied summary judgment to a retired Oakland County detective and a former state police polygraph examiner accused of helping wrongfully convict two brothers who spent 25 years in prison for first-degree murder before their convictions were vacated four years ago.

• March 25, 2026

  Murky Video Leads 7th Circ. To Reverse Officer Immunity

  A man arrested during an early morning methamphetamine search at a rural Wisconsin property in 2018 may continue his battle against a police officer he says deliberately hit him in the head with a rifle, using excessive force, a Seventh Circuit panel has said in a reversal.

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