Of all the current Indiana judicial nominees, Magistrate Judge Joshua Kolar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana is the farthest along on his route to fill a vacancy.
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That federal courts, including the one in Chicago that handles all Indiana immigration cases, have a case backlog is something that immigration attorneys have gotten used to over the years. But that backlog has now reached record levels.
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A proposal submitted to the Judicial Conference’s Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure last month provides for the creation of a “Bar of the District Court for the United States.”
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The rule would require all courts to record hearings in all case types, but would “prohibit” stenography and shorthand — a practice that is currently optional, not required — in Indiana’s state courts.
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U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., ruled that Trump’s order to exclude transgender troops from military service likely violates their constitutional rights.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ immediate public response to Trump marks an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches.
The law is a sweeping wartime authority that allows non-citizens to be deported without being given the opportunity to go before an immigration or federal court judge.
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday temporarily blocking the deportations, but lawyers told him there were already two planes with immigrants in the air
The case could have consequences for free speech and protest rights and threaten Greenpeace’s future.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Thursday found the firings didn’t follow federal law and required immediate offers of reinstatement be sent.
The judge said the president’s action sends a chilling message that lawyers can be punished for representing clients or advancing views unfavorable to the administration.
Billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump allies have railed at judges who have blocked parts of Trump’s agenda, threatening impeachment and launching personal attacks.
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A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with the Trump administration in allowing the immediate removal of Hampton Dellinger from the Office of Special Counsel.
The plaintiffs, Mid-America Milling Co. of Jeffersonville and Bagshaw Trucking Inc. of Memphis, claim in their suit that the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program has resulted in reverse discrimination against them.
The judge ordered the Office of Personnel Management to inform certain federal agencies that it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees.
The judge ruled the president cannot nullify the law passed by Congress establishing the program.
It’s the second time this month a judge has found the Trump administration did not follow a court order.
A Manhattan federal declined to rule immediately, leaving in place for now charges that Adams accepted perks and illegal campaign contributions from foreign interests.
The ruling came hours before the midnight deadline for them to apply for the deferred resignation program.
The former University of Pennsylvania swimmers’ lawsuit accuses the defendants of engineering a “public shock and awe display of monolithic support for biological unreality and radical gender ideology” by allowing a transgender athlete to compete.
A federal judge who already questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order is set to hear arguments Thursday over a longer-term pause of the directive
The order from U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan came minutes before the funding freeze was scheduled to go into effect. The administrative stay lasts until Monday afternoon and applies only to existing programs.