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  1. July 03, 2025

    Free-Speech Suit Will Be Early Trial Court Test Of Trump Admin

    A Massachusetts federal judge will begin hearing testimony Monday in a challenge by academic organizations to the Trump administration's visa revocations and removals of noncitizen faculty and students who have expressed pro-Palestinian views, in one of the first trials over the president's second-term policies.

  2. June 26, 2025

    ICE Agents Could Testify Anonymously In 1st Am. Trial

    A Massachusetts federal judge suggested Thursday he is open to allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to testify anonymously at an upcoming bench trial in a suit brought by academic groups challenging the detention of noncitizen students and faculty who express pro-Palestinian views.

  3. June 05, 2025

    Students Removal Case Witnesses Fear Retaliation, Orgs. Say

    Potential witnesses are afraid the government will retaliate against them if they testify in a free speech case brought by academic organizations over immigration officials' detention of non-citizen students and faculty for expressing pro-Palestinian views, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court seeking a protective order.

  4. June 02, 2025

    Feds To Face Discovery, Trial In Free-Speech Removals Case

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration's bid to foreclose discovery and a July 7 bench trial in a free-speech lawsuit by academic organizations challenging deportations of some of their members apparently based on their pro-Palestinian views.

  5. May 22, 2025

    Feds Ask To Bar Discovery, Trial In Free-Speech Removal Suit

    The Trump administration is urging a Massachusetts federal judge to bar discovery and trial in a lawsuit brought by academic organizations accusing it of pursuing an "ideological deportation policy" against noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests.

  6. May 06, 2025

    Judge Warns He Wants 'Candor' In Free-Speech Removal Suit

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday told counsel that he expects "absolute candor" as he presides over a suit challenging the Trump administration's practice of arresting and removing noncitizen students and faculty from the United States over pro-Palestinian speech.

  7. April 29, 2025

    Univ. Groups Can Pursue Free-Speech Case Over Removals

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday ruled that he will allow academic organizations to pursue their "novel" First Amendment claims against the Trump administration over the deportation of noncitizen faculty and students who expressed pro-Palestinian views.

  8. April 23, 2025

    Standing May Doom Academic Groups' Suit Over Removals

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday declined to consider a request by a group of academic organizations to immediately bar the government from deporting students and faculty over pro-Palestinian activity, and hinted that he may dismiss the complaint for lack of standing.

  9. March 25, 2025

    Academics Sue To Block Removals Of Pro-Palestine Students

    Academic groups filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court on Tuesday seeking to block the Trump administration from targeting noncitizen students and faculty members who attend pro-Palestinian protests with large-scale arrests, detentions and deportations, saying it violates the First Amendment.