Author name: Joan Agoh

As we enter the dog days of summer, we are greeted by new extremist challenges to immigrant-inclusive policies—and a new trend: the addition of private plaintiffs to State/local government-led lawsuits challenging federal immigration policy (presumably to compensate for their own lack of standing post-USA v. Texas). See below and our microsite for recent developments.  District […]

Summer is just around the corner, and with that are also some recent decisions coming out of Texas in extremist challenges to immigrant inclusive policies; see below for developments from May. As always, you can find more information about these and other cases on our microsite. Judge Tipton denies intervention in border wall dispute, enters

In addition to its usual showers and unusual celestial events, this April has also brought several developments in extremist litigation challenge immigrant-inclusive policies; and as usual, most of those developments are out of federal courts in Texas. See below and our microsite for the latest.  Applying border wall injunction gets messy, could stiff third parties

As we celebrate the just-issued preliminary injunction blocking Texas’s anti-immigrant SB4, see below (and our microsite) for other February developments in extremist litigation challenging immigrant-inclusive policies.  Judge Kacsmaryk denies motion to dismiss TX suit over asylum rule in 9-page opinion  In early February, Judge Kacsmaryk issued an opinion denying the Department of Justice’s motion to