The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday asked Washington's highest court to clarify whether the state's minimum wage law applied to immigrant detainees in a GEO Group facility, calling it a "determinative" issue in GEO's bid to overturn a $23.2 million judgment.
A class of asylum seekers, who convinced a lower court that an unwritten Trump-era policy rejecting them at the Southern Border was unconstitutional, urged the Ninth Circuit to have the lower court scrutinize the government's justification for turning them away.
A congressional oversight committee said it is investigating potential impropriety in the Biden administration's $1.5 million contract with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP for legal services ahead of anticipated impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The Biden administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to touch former President Donald Trump's controversial tariffs on steel imports, saying Trump wasn't forced to accept findings that the imports threatened national security, which importers had deemed baseless.
Immigrant advocates are again urging a California federal court to certify a class of vulnerable juveniles waiting for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to process their visa applications, saying the agency's backlog is still impacting thousands of young immigrants.