As David wrote here, the Trump administration announced yesterday that it was putting an end to Harvard’s ability to enroll international students. That’s significant because about a quarter of Harvard’s total enrollment is international students. Those students also pay a higher tuition compared to others so it’s a big portion of the school’s tuition income....
DHS said it targeted Harvard’s foreign students in a quest to “root out the evils of anti-Americanism.” A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s revocation of Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students, threatening the legal status of thousands of students, after the school sued to stop the ban. The administration’s ban is...
We’ve all heard the story at this point but yesterday a local news channel got video of the incident in response to an open records request they had filed a month ago. The video, released by Milwaukee County through an open records request, is part of the evidence in the case against Judge Dugan, who...
The judge said the administration has made it clear it intends to gut the agency without approval from Congress. President Donald Trump’s sweeping deregulatory agenda was dealt a blow on Thursday when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to block Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and ordered reinstatements of laid...
In March, Greenpeace lost a trial in North Dakota and a jury determined they should pay Energy Transfer, the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline, a total of $667 million in damages. Greenpeace said at the time that even half that amount could potentially bankrupt them. Last week, Greenpeace asked a judge to reduce...
A federal judge has said the deportation of eight men to South Sudan “unquestionably” violated his order that migrants must be allowed to challenge their removal to third countries. Judge Brian Murphy’s finding on Wednesday was the latest turn in a fast-evolving dispute. One day earlier, he ordered US authorities to keep custody of the...
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling marks one of the most alarming judicial rollbacks of LGBTQ rights in recent memory. On Thursday, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — a far-right federal judge in the Northern District of Texas with a record of aligning with the GOP’s most extreme legal positions — issued a ruling declaring that Title VII no...
Police in Mexico have arrested a retired judge accused of tampering with evidence related to the disappearance of 43 students from Iguala more than a decade ago. Lambertina Galeana Marín was the president of the Superior Tribunal of Justice in the state of Guerrero when the trainee teachers went missing in 2014. The 79-year-old is...
After the wildfires that swept through LA neighborhoods of Altadena and Pacific Palisades, State Farm (California’s top home insurer) requested an emergency rate hike of 22%. They didn’t get that but yesterday a judge did approve a 17% hike. Administrative Law Judge Karl Frederic Seligman, who oversaw an unusual three-day hearing on the matter last...
Yesterday, Judge Hannah Dugan was indicted by a federal grand jury. She is set to enter a plea in response to that indictment tomorrow. But before that happens, her attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss the case, claiming that she has complete immunity from prosecution for any “official acts.” If that sounds familiar it’s...
The Trump administration claimed Suri’s opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza made him a national security threat. On Wednesday, a federal court ordered the release of Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri, an Indian postdoctoral student who was abducted by U.S. immigration officials two months ago, after a judge found that he was improperly denied his...
Hannah Dugan is the Wisconsin judge who was arrested by the FBI last month after (allegedly) interfering with ICE agents who were present in the public part of the courthouse to make an arrest of a criminal illegal alien. Today she was indicted on two counts by a federal grand jury. The Wisconsin judge arrested...
BBC A Los Angeles judge has agreed to resentence two brothers who are serving life in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents in a Beverly Hills mansion. Judge Michael Jesic’s ruling in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez paves the way for the brothers’ release on parole. The pair have acknowledged killing...
A federal judge in California on Friday temporarily blocked what at coalition of labor unions, local governments, and nonprofits argued was “the unconstitutional dismantling of the federal government by the president of the United States on a scale unprecedented in this country’s history and in clear excess of his authority.” Since returning to office in...
Rümeysa Öztürk, one of several pro-Palestine scholars kidnapped and imprisoned by the Trump administration under its dubious interpretation of an 18th-century law and a Cold War-era national security measure, was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Friday following a federal judge’s order. U.S. District Judge William Sessions III in Vermont ruled that Öztürk —...