December 02, 2020
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday upheld preliminary injunctions that block the Trump administration's so-called public charge rule that penalizes immigrants for using public benefits, but the court narrowed a nationwide block of the rule.
August 03, 2020
A California federal judge trimmed claims in a lawsuit brought by California, Maine, Oregon, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia challenging the Trump administration's "public charge" rule in a Monday order, nixing four of the coalition's six claims against the rule.
April 02, 2020
A coalition that includes four states challenging the Trump administration's "public charge" rule scored an early-stage victory when a California federal judge gave it the green light to request documents from the government that the states say may help prove their allegations of constitutional violation.
March 04, 2020
A California federal judge appeared skeptical on Wednesday of a coalition of states' arguments that the Trump administration must turn over all administrative documents related to its "public charge" rule, which penalizes immigrants who use public benefits, saying everything could be potentially relevant to the unusual request.
January 30, 2020
A coalition of attorneys general wants to force the Trump administration to turn over documents on its controversial wealth test for immigrants, telling a federal judge that the additional information is needed for the court to decide if the immigration rule is legal.
October 29, 2019
A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official said the longer courts block a policy penalizing immigrants for using public assistance programs, the more the agency risks spending on training personnel to enforce the policy.
October 11, 2019
Three federal judges in New York, California and Washington state blocked the Trump administration Friday from enforcing a rule that would penalize immigrants for using public assistance programs, with one judge calling the measure "repugnant."
October 02, 2019
A Trump administration rule that would penalize immigrants who use certain public benefits threatens public health, challengers seeking a nationwide preliminary injunction told a California federal judge Wednesday, saying immigrants fearing retaliation from authorities are already abandoning public programs.
September 17, 2019
A California federal judge won't let dozens of national advocacy groups, think tanks and health care organizations join a trio of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's recent policy that penalizes immigrants for using certain public benefits.