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- Chief 9th Circuit Judge Mary Murguia detailed the court's plans to reexamine those practices in a concurring opinion concerning a Peruvian family who had secured a stay of a removal order for over a year thanks to the court's processes. Read the opinion here.
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Those practices could affect a growing number of cases before the 9th Circuit as Trump's administration pursues an ongoing mass deportation campaign, leading to a rising number of matters in court.
- The review targets a 2022 order that grants automatic temporary stays, which a three-judge panel of Trump appointees called “manifestly unlawful” and prone to abuse.
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As a remedy, it directed the clerk's office in all cases going forward to fast-track motions seeking stays of removal by assigning them to the next available panel to hear such emergency requests.
- Murguia, an Obama appointee, said the full court will address the issue through its normal internal policymaking processes.
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Nate Raymond has more here.
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Tariffs: The U.S. customs agency is due to provide an initial report to a federal trade judge on the status of a system for refunding $165 billion in tariffs imposed by President Trump that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down last month.
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Second Amendment: The 9th Circuit will hear arguments in a lawsuit brought by California demanding that the ATF change its rules relating to ghost guns, which lack serial numbers and can be purchased without a background check. A lower court judge partially rejected the ATF rule.
- Epstein: U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan will hear oral arguments in a bid by women who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein to be certified as a class as they pursue a lawsuit alleging Bank of America facilitated his alleged sex trafficking operation.
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Litigation: U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in D.C. will hold a motion hearing in a lawsuit from Congresswoman Joyce Beatty seeking to block President Trump from renaming the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Read the complaint.
- SCOTUS: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is scheduled to give the 2026 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture, which will be a conversation with Counselor to the Chief Justice Bob Dow at the Law Library of Congress in D.C. Here is a livestream link.
- SCOTUS: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is scheduled to speak at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon.
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SCOTUS: Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is scheduled to speak at the State Library of Massachusetts in Boston. Here’s a livestream link.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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Two Democratic lawmakers asked the DOJ's watchdog to review whether Attorney General Pam Bondi has properly recused herself from cases involving clients of her brother Brad Bondi, a partner at Paul Hastings.
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U.S. District Judge Michelle Williams Court in Los Angeles for a second time dismissed a lawsuit by Ford that accused a group of plaintiffs’ lawyers of running a fraudulent billing scheme to extract more than $100 million in unearned legal fees from the company and other automakers under a California consumer protection law for vehicle purchases. Read the ruling.
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"There is no way for institutions to reasonably deliver accurate data in the federal government's rushed and arbitrary timeframe." |
—Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell in a statement. Seventeen Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit in Boston federal court seeking to block the Trump administration from requiring universities to collect data to prove they are no longer considering race as an admissions factor. Read the complaint. |
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That’s how many women are in the top 10 spots of a new ranking of the most-cited legal scholars. It’s more than double the number of previous years. Karen Sloan has more on the report. |
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