Federal Court

More Than 50 Federal Cases and Counting

Fighting Unlawful Immigration Detention in 2026 Federal court is supposed to be where a person can turn when the government…

4 months ago

The Great Writ Under Siege: Habeas Corpus in the Age of Mass Detention

The battle over immigration detention has reached every federal courthouse in America In the past six months, something remarkable has…

8 months ago

Federal Judge Ends Keeping Families Together Program

A federal judge in Texas has struck down the Biden administration's "Keeping Families Together" program, a policy that would have…

2 years ago

Lal Legal Sues State Department Over Denial of U.S. Passport Renewal

Our lawsuit against the State Department over denial of a U.S. passport to a U.S. citizen is featured in Prism…

6 years ago

SCOTUS Upholds DACA, Giving Temporary Victory to Many Undocumented Immigrants

In a landmark decision today, the Supreme Court of the United States narrowly threw a lifeline to the Deferred Action…

6 years ago

Victory – SIJS Settlement Final. USCIS Resumes Processing SIJS Applications

After more than a year of holding Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) cases in abeyance and denying many by adding extraneous…

7 years ago

Conviction for Possession or Sale of Meth Can No Longer Lead to Deportation In The Ninth Circuit

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals continues to get it right on immigration. In Lorenzo v. Sessions, the Ninth Circuit…

8 years ago

District Court Orders DHS to Provide Asylum Seekers Notice of One-Year Bar

In Mendez Rojas v. Johnson, District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez has ruled that the United States government's failure to provide…

9 years ago