Taxpayer and immigrants’ rights advocates filed new motions in their lawsuit Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Massachusetts et al. v. Bessent et al., which challenges the federal ...

Judge Halts Politicized Hiring Scheme That Threatened the Nonpartisan Civil Service

Protect Democracy filed suit arguing that the Merit Hiring Plan, and the inclusion of a “loyalty question” in non-political job postings, violates the First Amendment.

In the California City facility, ‘contact visits’ are strictly forbidden – but detained residents aren’t staying quiet. Are officials listening?

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asked a Georgia federal judge to pause a city's suit attempting to block the conversion of an empty warehouse into...

A court ordered the government to turn over to immigrant rights groups records that show how the Department of Government Efficiency was involved in last year’s decision to provide tax and social secu...

Attorneys at Keker, Van Nest & Peters and the ACLU filed a public report from a court-appointed monitor in a class action against ICE on July 27, which found that the agency had failed to comply with ...

The Veterans Affairs Department says it is following the terms of an expiring agreement. AFGE argues VA is ignoring a requirement to keep the contract in place during negotiations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement quickly opened a new detention center in a former California state prison last year. Detainees now are suing over their access to healthcare.

A federal judge appointed a monitor to ensure compliance with her February order that ICE provide "constitutionally adequate healthcare" at the California City Detention Facility.

The Trump administration sought to upend the historical understanding of the 14th Amendment, which has long been interpreted to extend birthright citizenship broadly.

Keker, Van Nest & Peters has appointed veteran trial lawyers R. James Slaughter as Managing Partner and Steven Ragland as General Counsel.

The First Circuit denied a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs request to shelve its contract with a union representing government workers during an appeal, while also pausing a lower court's order th...

Representing the town of Social Circle in Georgia, Keker, Van Nest & Peters has filed a lawsuit to halt the federal government’s plan to convert a local warehouse into a 10,000-bed immigration detenti...

Gennel Miles was released after serving 16 years in prison for a felony murder conviction based on weak testimony, due to California's felony murder reforms and the efforts of the Felony Murder Resent...

Senait Kifle is worried her brother, a 49-year-old intellectually disabled man, might die if he does not receive appropriate medical attention at California City Detention Facility.

A federal judge ruled that Border Patrol sweeps in California were conducted "without considering or complying with law Congress enacted."

Keker, Van Nest & Peters earned a “Litigator of the Week Shout-Out” from Law.com for securing a preliminary injunction on behalf of the American Federation of Government Employees’ National Veterans A...

Federal workers' unions told a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday that President Donald Trump's administration is trying to fill the government workforce with loyalists, urging him to forbid the ad...