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July 21, 2026
Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil is seeking damages from the federal government over its efforts to "weaponize immigration laws" to falsely imprison him in retaliation for his pro-Palestinian activism on campus, according to a new lawsuit filed in New York federal court.
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July 21, 2026
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday that a software glitch in the state's motor vehicle system between 2023 and 2024 accidentally registered about 6,600 individuals to vote and that roughly 400 of them voted.
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July 21, 2026
The Trump administration told a New Mexico federal judge that free speech and religious exercise objections are no basis to stop it from seizing 14 acres of land from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces for a border security project.
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July 21, 2026
A Second Circuit panel ruled Tuesday that a Vermont federal judge should not have ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release Palestinian green-card holder Mohsen Mahdawi because his claims should have been funneled through the immigration court process.
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July 21, 2026
A financial services firm's executive sent a series of late-night messages threatening to report an Albanian immigrant worker for immigration fraud just three days after the worker's attorney sent a demand letter asserting unpaid overtime claims, a New York federal lawsuit alleged.
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July 21, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a retroactive cap on work authorization for temporary protected status recipients and asylum-seekers that would have forced thousands of immigrant workers out of their jobs starting on Wednesday.
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July 20, 2026
Environmental and community groups asked a Texas federal judge Friday to grant them summary judgment in their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's waiver of dozens of environmental and other federal laws to speed border wall construction across roughly 430 miles, arguing it's a clear violation of the major questions doctrine.
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July 20, 2026
A Minnesota federal judge Monday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit challenging sanctuary policies in Minnesota, holding that the policies do not unlawfully attempt to regulate or thwart federal immigration enforcement.
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July 20, 2026
The Ninth Circuit Monday revived the asylum bid of a Mexican mother and her children who escaped masked men, saying an immigration appeals panel disobeyed its own precedent when rejecting an age-based social group she based her petition on.
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July 20, 2026
Yanping Chen, a scientist who accused an FBI agent of leaking her confidential immigration records to former Fox News correspondent Catherine Herridge, is asking a D.C. federal judge to finally enforce a yearsold contempt order against Herridge now that the appeals process has run its course.
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July 20, 2026
Three Venezuelan men who were flown to El Salvador's CECOT prison without a hearing last year have brought a class action against the airline contractors who transported them, saying the companies "rushed" to whisk away hundreds of detainees despite ongoing hearings in which a judge blocked the scheme.
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July 20, 2026
A Chicago hotel can't duck an arbitrator's finding that it needed to employ union workers while operating as a migrant shelter, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled, rejecting the hotel's argument that the arbitration award wasn't grounded in the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.
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July 20, 2026
Federal courts in the latter half of 2026 are expected to decide if the Trump administration overstepped by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security and whether the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions pass constitutional muster, potentially affecting the government's ability to tackle fraud.
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July 20, 2026
A civil rights litigator who left a top role at the Washington state attorney general's office last fall to step in for a retiring state Supreme Court justice is vying this election season to retain the seat for the next two years, drawing opposition from a Ballard Spahr LLP tax attorney and a longtime family law practitioner.
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July 17, 2026
A split panel of the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday an El Salvador woman granted temporary removal relief did not have an immigration "status" and was therefore ineligible to seek to stop her deportation, breaking with precedent in the Fifth and Ninth circuits.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge Friday denied a group of current and former Meta employees' bid to swiftly block the company from disturbing the benefits of certain employees it allegedly selected for termination using artificial intelligence, but requested more information on how Meta selected four employees on company-sponsored employment visas.
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July 17, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's new public charge rule will give immigration officers wide discretion to decide who will become dependent on government assistance, replacing clearly defined guidelines with a system attorneys say has no guardrails or objective standards.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge has said the Trump administration must take steps to improve conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center East and West, finding a class of immigrant detainees likely to prevail in litigation claiming people have been subjected to inhumane and intolerable treatment.
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July 17, 2026
The grandest iteration of the World Cup to date unsurprisingly raised new legal and regulatory disputes, including immigration issues and the White House's intervention in a player disciplinary proceeding. Here, Law360 digs into the legal questions arising from the tournament.
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July 17, 2026
The Board of Immigration Appeals disagreed that a 6-year-old girl could face "exceptional hardship" in foster care after her Guatemalan father was deported, when he could just take her along instead, overturning a cancellation of removal an immigration judge granted.
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July 17, 2026
The Fourth Circuit declined to revisit a Guatemalan man's request for asylum, finding he was not specifically targeted by MS-13 because of his membership in a particular group or his beliefs, but instead was a victim of general gang activity.
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July 17, 2026
A federal judge in Michigan, appointed by President Donald Trump, called out the government for its apparent use of artificial intelligence to cite "nonexistent case law."
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July 16, 2026
The Trump administration filed suit against Maryland and its university system Thursday, alleging that state laws granting in-state tuition and financial aid to unauthorized immigrants violate federal law by denying the same benefits to out-of-state citizens.
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July 16, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday finalized a regulation that will give immigration officers more discretion to scrutinize immigration applications to determine if someone is inadmissible for being likely to rely on government benefits.
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July 16, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit said noncitizens who were victims of the Parkland high school shooting, and their families, are not entitled to leave and reenter the country while awaiting their special visas for assisting law enforcement in investigating the crime.