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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...
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 ...
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...
When agents violate civil rights, the avenues for consequences include internal administrative discipline, civil lawsuits (often routed through the Federal Tort Claims Act or constitutional claims), a...
The federal circuits are sharply divided over whether and when border agents may conduct warrantless forensic searches of travelers’ electronic devices: some courts treat device searches as routine at...
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...
Federal and state courts that have jurisdiction over a particular legal action can, in appropriate civil enforcement or remedial contexts, place assets—including business-owned real estate that might ...
is the central statutory framework: it presumptively seals “matters occurring before the grand jury” and permits disclosure only under narrow, enumerated exceptions and a demanding “particularized nee...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that a court appointed an "administrator" or receiver to run because of a failure of compliance; what did occur in the litigation was a disputed and temp...
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...
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...
The indictment captioned , charged in January 2023 with multiple federal counts including drug-trafficking and related forfeiture allegations (indictment filed 01/17/2023) . Court records show Orgil w...
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...
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...