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April 21, 2026
Voting rights advocates sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday over its bid to acquire states' unredacted voter information to cross-check voter rolls against immigration databases, warning that the effort could enable purges of naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote.
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April 21, 2026
Attorneys for a class of young asylum-seekers told a Maryland federal judge the U.S. government should be held in contempt for brazenly violating a settlement agreement and deporting class members to countries they fled without first deciding their asylum applications.
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April 21, 2026
An Oregon federal judge on Tuesday allowed two environmental groups to intervene as plaintiffs in a consolidated suit filed by the state and one of its cities, which are challenging a proposed federal immigrant detention center planned to be built near an airport.
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April 21, 2026
Former state Judge Hannah Dugan asked a Wisconsin federal judge Tuesday to reconsider an order not to overturn her felony obstruction conviction for directing a defendant in her courtroom away from immigration agents, arguing the Fourth Circuit recently reversed a decision the trial court repeatedly relied upon.
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April 21, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday issued a list of more than 1,400 individuals who lost U.S. citizenship during the first quarter of the year, a slight uptick from a year ago.
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April 20, 2026
A former housekeeper for Kylie Jenner has sued the celebrity influencer in California state court, alleging the housekeeper was forced to do additional work without pay, mocked by colleagues for her accent, treated as inferior due to her Salvadoran background, and that "things got violent" when she complained to her supervisors.
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April 20, 2026
A Mexican national and domestic violence survivor sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday, arguing that the October rule eliminating the automatic extension of work permits for immigrants awaiting renewal decisions will severely harm immigrants who get pushed out of the workforce.
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April 20, 2026
A New York federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to testify about after-the-fact administrative arrest warrants, saying the government is trying to obscure whether the arrests of two people were lawful.
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April 20, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Monday found that five individuals were arrested in violation of a consent decree prohibiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making warrantless arrests without probable cause, but said recent guidance from the Seventh Circuit curbed his authority to provide relief to others.
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April 20, 2026
A Texas federal judge directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release a Sudanese man detained for more than a year after a removal order, and knocked government officials for submitting unsworn statements about when he would likely be deported.
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April 20, 2026
Legal professional services software firm 8am LLC, owner of MyCase and formerly known as AffiniPay, has been sued in Texas federal court over a data breach exposing sensitive data of more than 100,000 people in the DocketWise immigration case management platform.
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April 20, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has ruled in favor of a Facebook group and a phone app that track U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immigration operations in their lawsuit accusing U.S. government officials of coercing Meta and Apple into disabling their content, finding their First Amendment rights were likely violated.
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April 20, 2026
A man who pled guilty to threatening the wife of a Georgia-based U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has been sentenced to two years of probation and fined $2,500.
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April 20, 2026
A panel of the First Circuit has ruled the Board of Immigration Appeals ignored its own regulations, and that the board engaged in impermissible and faulty fact-finding, when it determined a Venezuelan man used a false ID to avoid criminal prosecution and ordered his removal.
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April 20, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the state and the city of Chicago challenging the deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois, agreeing with the Trump administration that the case is now moot because the troops have been demobilized or withdrawn and the orders authorizing their presence "are no longer alive."
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April 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether the Fifth Circuit applied the wrong standard of review in determining that a child brought to the U.S. without her father's permission should be returned home to Venezuela.
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April 17, 2026
A Rhode Island federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from imposing new conditions related to diversity, equity and inclusion activities and immigration status on domestic violence assistance grants, finding a nonprofit coalition likely to succeed in a legal challenge.
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April 17, 2026
Historical preservationists have joined with conservation advocates in suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Texas federal court, accusing the Trump administration of unconstitutionally repealing dozens of laws as it builds a massive wall along the Mexican border.
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April 17, 2026
A California federal judge ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to unfreeze its processing of work permit applications for several dozen Iranians and a Sudanese national, finding the agency likely violated federal administrative law by indefinitely delaying decisions.
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April 17, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's final argument session of this term kicks off Monday, when the justices will consider the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to seek disgorgement orders against alleged wrongdoers without proving investors were harmed. Here, Law360 breaks down the week's oral arguments.
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April 17, 2026
New lawsuits and a tricky compliance landscape have besieged a trucking industry navigating the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement of restrictions on immigrant commercial truck drivers, as motor carriers, freight brokers and other ground-based shippers worry about escalating rates, driver turnover and service disruptions.
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April 17, 2026
Following the House's rebuke Thursday of the Trump administration in its vote to extend temporary protected status for Haitian nationals in the United States, Republican senators insist the bill won't pass their chamber.
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April 17, 2026
Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk has returned to her native Turkey after completing her doctorate and reaching a settlement with the federal government to end her immigration proceedings, her attorneys said Friday.
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April 17, 2026
A Salvadoran man who escaped immigration custody by tying bedsheets into a rope to scale a fence cannot be convicted for obstructing a pending proceeding because his removal order was final when he ran to nearby woods, the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday, reversing a Virginia federal court's decision.
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April 17, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a Texas state court to block a Houston ordinance that allegedly violates a state law prohibiting local governments from limiting cooperation with federal immigration agents.