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A Reuters review of court records found that hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that the Trump administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully. Here's what to know: |
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- Despite courts finding that the policy is illegal, the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely, including children. Read about the 5-year-old Ecuadorean boy who was detained by ICE.
- Detained immigrants have filed more than 20,000 lawsuits seeking their release.
- "It is appalling that the Government insists that this Court should redefine or completely disregard the current law as it is clearly written," U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston of West Virginia, a Bush appointee, wrote last week, ordering the release of a Venezuelan detainee in the state.
- Last month, Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz in Minnesota said the government had violated 96 orders in 76 cases. Read Schiltz's order.
- Daniel Rosen, the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, later said that the cases had created an "enormous burden" for government attorneys. Read Rosen's filing.
- Click here for the full report.
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- Elections: Fulton County, Georgia, faces a deadline to file an updated motion seeking the return of 2020 election ballots and other material the FBI seized in a search of its election facility last month. The filing is expected to respond to claims about election irregularities in an FBI affidavit that county officials have said have already been debunked
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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- For tens of thousands of aspiring lawyers, the math of paying for a U.S. law degree changes on July 1, 2026, when a new cap is set to limit federal loans for professional degree programs at $50,000 a year and $200,000 in total. Find out more.
- The Federal Reserve is expected to name Randall Guynn, the former chairman of the financial institutions group at Davis Polk & Wardwell, as its new director of supervision and regulation, according to sources. Read more here.
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That's how much a Pennsylvania jury awarded the family of a woman who sued Johnson & Johnson, alleging its talc-based baby powder was to blame for her ovarian cancer. Read more here. |
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"Wisdom counsels that redemption may be found by acknowledging and fixing our own errors."
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- The Trump administration sued Harvard University over alleged failure to comply with a federal investigation and is seeking documents related to the school's admissions process. Read the complaint.
- Major U.S. medical groups urged U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston to block the Trump administration from implementing new guidance cutting the number of vaccines routinely recommended for children and bar HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handpicked vaccine advisory panel from holding its next meeting.
- New York and New Jersey asked U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in New York to convene a hearing because the Trump administration has not transferred $205 million in frozen federal funding for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project in New York. Read more here.
- The Federal Circuit turned away a challenge from Apple, Google, Intel, Cisco Systems and Edwards Lifesciences to a USPTO action that reduced the number of patent-validity reviews at the agency. Read the companies' appeal.
- The Virginia Supreme Court said it would allow a Democratic-backed redistricting effort to head to a voter referendum in April, potentially paving the way for the party to flip as many as four Republican seats in the House this fall. Read more here.
- U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan overseeing Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores' racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL ruled that the claims can be heard in open court. Read more here.
- An investor sued Steve Bannon, Boris Epshteyn and others in a proposed class action, accusing them of selling unregistered cryptocurrency to thousands of people while concealing facts about the conservative-coded digital token's risks and governance. Read the lawsuit.
- An Indian man charged with orchestrating an unsuccessful Indian government-backed plot to kill a Sikh separatist in New York City pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to three criminal charges. Read more here.
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Pamela Wu of Morgan Lewis examines a two-tier international proposal for implementation of climate strategies, and how that could affect companies' decarbonization efforts, compliance considerations, and stakeholder expectations. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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