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Since 2020 the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) has been central to a surge of high‑seas interdictions: U.S. agencies increasingly rely on MDLEA to prosecute foreign nationals seized on state...
Two separate federal rulings and partial releases make the simple claim — “an Obama judge is blocking the Epstein files release” — misleading. Multiple judges, including Obama appointees Robin Rosenbe...
Federal immigration agents can sometimes be held civilly liable for shootings, but liability is constrained by complicated immunities, statutory pathways such as the Federal Tort Claims Act, and split...
The Supreme Court since 2020 has sharply narrowed private lawsuits against federal officers, including ICE agents, by eviscerating Bivens remedies and steering many claims into statutory channels like...
Using the wrong pronouns can legally constitute when it is intentional, repeated, or pervasive, particularly in workplace and institutional settings; federal agencies and some courts treat such conduc...
U.S. courts currently permit warrants based on IP-address information, but they do so against a shifting legal backdrop: traditional third‑party doctrine cases and pen‑register rules often allow acces...
The obvious surface fact is that Judge Aileen Cannon’s January injunction blocking release of Volume II of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report transformed her from a peripheral adjudicator into the ef...
Tyler Boyer’s case currently shows activity at the federal appellate level: the Federal Circuit heard argument earlier this month concerning whether an employer may rely solely on to establish an affi...
The constitutional baseline for lethal force against a vehicle is the Fourth Amendment’s “objective reasonableness” test from Graham v. Connor, which permits deadly force only when an officer reasonab...
Consequences for ICE agents involved in wrongful arrests currently range from civil lawsuits against the federal government to possible internal discipline, local or state criminal referral in narrow ...
Federal courts offer a short list of powerful tools to challenge unlawful ICE arrests or deportations: immediate release via habeas corpus and injunctions, civil damages (most commonly through the Fed...
Federal appellate and district courts have split on whether ICE may enter homes without judicial warrants and what remedies victims may obtain: many lower courts and district judges have held warrantl...
Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the federal classified‑documents indictment against Donald Trump in July 2024, holding the special counsel was improperly appointed; Special Counsel Jack Smith appealed a...
Yes — reporting and legal filings show ICE has been the subject of multiple lawsuits and claims alleging unlawful or excessive force, including incidents involving minors and youth in detention; recen...
Executive Summary ICE agents can sometimes be held personally liable for wrongful detention, but legal outcomes are highly uncertain and vary by jurisdiction because of competing doctrines—Bivens reme...
As of the sources provided (published between January and June 2025), two principal criminal matters involving Donald Trump were identified as having active appellate activity: an Eleventh Circuit cri...
Federal courts since 2015 have sent mixed signals in cases challenging warrantless or into private homes: the old remedy that once allowed civil suits against federal agents exists as precedent but fe...
The physical seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago occurred during an FBI search in August 2022, when agents executed a warrant and removed thousands of pages and boxes of materials . What followed was...
The Eleventh Circuit enforces procedural and substantive time limits strictly, often affirming district-court rulings that penalize delay and applying established appellate doctrines to prevent reliti...
Federal courts were sharply divided before the Supreme Court’s ruling: a minority of circuits—most notably the Fifth, along with the Second, Fourth, and Eighth in practice—applied a compressed “moment...