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July 07, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel said Tuesday that the government may owe damages to a woman a Customs and Border Protection agent and union officer struck with his truck, reversing a ruling that he was on an errand outside the scope of his work.
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July 07, 2026
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Tuesday signed into law the state's long-overdue budget, which includes a provision that largely strips funding for civil legal aid services provided by the state's Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts program.
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July 07, 2026
Federal border agents did not need a warrant or probable cause before manually searching a fraudster's cellphone for evidence upon his return flight to the United States, the Seventh Circuit said Monday, keeping the evidence a part of his case.
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July 07, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security hit back at a lawsuit from three immigrant advocacy groups challenging a policy memo authorizing ICE officers to enter private homes without a judicial warrant, saying the groups have not been personally harmed.
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July 07, 2026
Immigrant advocacy groups are asking a Massachusetts federal court to temporarily block a series of allegedly unlawful Trump administration policies that threaten to hinder the ability of thousands of temporary protected status holders and asylum-seekers to work and remain in the U.S.
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July 06, 2026
A New York man who sent a scathing email to U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement in the wake of its deadly enforcement surge in Minnesota alleges in a D.C. federal lawsuit Monday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security unlawfully responded to this constitutionally protected missive with intimidation.
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July 06, 2026
Two companies partnered with Con Edison targeted immigrants from the country of Georgia and required them to work 50- to 90-hour weeks under conditions "tantamount to human trafficking" for far less than minimum wage, according to a proposed class action filed in New York federal court Monday.
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July 06, 2026
Summer is heating up in North Carolina Business Court with a slew of recent rulings, including one greenlighting a data breach class action brought by current and former workers who allege Charlotte-based Bojangles failed to guard their personal information from hackers.
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July 06, 2026
Plaintiffs backed by the American Civil Liberties Union who won a preliminary injunction preventing officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making warrantless arrests in Colorado asked a federal judge Thursday to ignore the government's request to narrow the injunction.
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July 06, 2026
A split Fourth Circuit panel said an immigration appeals board strayed from the appropriate review standard when it overturned removal protections granted to a man who feared he would be tortured or killed if deported to Jamaica.
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July 06, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices forged unusual alliances when they ruled a federal statute preempts claims Monsanto failed to warn consumers its Roundup weed killer may cause cancer. Oral arguments provided insights on the 7-2 outcome, highlighting issues the jurists were grappling with and showcasing rationales that found their way into the opinion.
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July 06, 2026
Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming better attuned to the conservative supermajority, attorneys say.
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July 06, 2026
When one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most talkative members suddenly struggled to speak, the atmosphere at oral arguments grew increasingly anxious — until the justice deadpanned that it was an advocate's golden opportunity to avoid a grilling.
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July 06, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has limited its recent decision permitting the federal government to subject unauthorized immigrants to mandatory detention without bond, finding such individuals are still entitled to an eventual bond hearing under their Fifth Amendment due process rights.
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July 06, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is asking a D.C. federal judge to pause a ruling blocking its expansion of a database that allows states to screen voters while it appeals to the D.C. Circuit.
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July 02, 2026
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 02, 2026
The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.
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July 02, 2026
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.
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July 02, 2026
The Seventh Circuit criticized a practice by immigration judges in which they attach boilerplate legal citations instead of citing them in the decisions themselves, saying it makes appellate review more difficult, but declined to reject the practice.
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July 02, 2026
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday issued a split opinion handing down a five-month term of probation and a suspended jail sentence to a Miami woman for practicing as an unlicensed immigration attorney after she admitted violating previous orders prohibiting her from the same conduct.
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July 02, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel sided with media conglomerate Sinclair Broadcast Group and a nurse who was interviewed about alleged forced sterilizations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, saying a trial court erred by letting a doctor's defamation suit proceed.
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July 02, 2026
The Board of Immigration Appeals has overturned an immigration judge's decision to release a detained man facing removal from the U.S., saying his bond hearing did not take place in the jurisdiction where he was being held in immigration detention.
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July 02, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.
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July 02, 2026
A former Wisconsin judge who was convicted of obstructing ICE officers' courthouse arrest of a man facing misdemeanor charges by pointing him to a side door should spend up to 21 months in prison, the government said in a sentencing memo, recommending she be made an example.
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July 02, 2026
Revised vehicle fuel economy standards, negotiations on a new infrastructure and transportation funding package and the next iteration of a North American trade deal are some of the transportation industry's top regulatory developments to watch in the latter half of 2026.