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The Daily Docket

The Daily Docket

A newsletter by Reuters and Westlaw

 

By Shruthi Krishnamurthy

Good morning. A federal judge will consider whether to extend her order blocking Trump's ban on international student enrollment at Harvard. Plus, SCOTUS is expected to issue orders in pending appeals, and a judge ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully ousted three Democratic members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and ordered their reinstatement. Welcome to Monday. 

 

Harvard to urge judge to keep blocking Trump's international students ban

 

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U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston will consider whether to extend her order blocking the Trump administration from barring foreign nationals seeking to study at Harvard from entering the U.S. Here’s what to know:

  • Burroughs, in a temporary restraining order issued on June 5, blocked Trump's proclamation from taking effect, saying the president's directive would cause "immediate and irreparable injury" before the courts have a chance to review the case. The U.S. State Department resumed processing Harvard student visas after the ruling.
  • Burroughs last month had blocked Trump from implementing a separate order prohibiting Harvard from enrolling international students.
  • Harvard said Trump violated Burroughs' decision and amended its lawsuit to challenge the new directive.
  • The Trump administration has launched a multi-pronged attack on the university, freezing billions of dollars in grants and other funding and proposing to end its tax-exempt status, prompting a series of legal challenges. Read more.
 

Coming up today

  • The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue orders in pending appeals.
  • In Seattle, U.S. District Judge Kymberly Evanson will hear renewed arguments from Amazon and Apple to dismiss a consumer lawsuit accusing them of a conspiracy to inflate the prices of iPhones sold on Amazon’s platform.
  • Accused Mexican kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is due back in Brooklyn federal court on U.S. drug trafficking charges.
  • U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston will hold arguments in lawsuits by a group of Democratic-led states and scientific researchers represented by the ACLU who sued to secure reinstatement of NIH grants that funded research on topics including LGBTQ health, COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy canceled by the Trump administration as part of an "ideological purge."
  • Diddy sex trafficking trial continues in New York.
  • Five former officers convicted in the federal civil rights case regarding the 2022 traffic stop that killed Tyre Nichols will be sentenced this week, after the officers who went to trial in a state murder were acquitted.

Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.

 

More top news

  • US judge orders Trump to reinstate fired product safety commissioners
  • Americans don't see Supreme Court as politically neutral, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
  • US Court extends pause in Nippon Steel case, seeks updates by June 20
  • US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
  • Google comes out on top as years-long Mexico antitrust case closed
 

Industry insight

  • The Skadden Foundation altered its application criteria to remove language related to racial justice and other topics that became flashpoints for U.S. law firms under the Trump administration.
  • A group of seven partners is leaving Willkie Farr, which struck a deal with President Trump in April to avert an executive order targeting its business, to join Cooley, which is representing one of the law firms fighting his orders.
  • 3M sued three plaintiffs’ attorneys in federal court, accusing them of running a racketeering scheme to file dozens of dubious lawsuits over its respirators and then use the claims to pressure the company to settle.
  • Moves: Husch Blackwell added private wealth partner Lorna McGeorge ... Financial services regulatory attorney Danielle Reyes joined Holland & Knight.
 

In the courts

  • U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco temporarily blocked the U.S. State Department from implementing an agency-wide reorganization plan that includes nearly 2,000 layoffs. 
  • U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz in Newark denied Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil's request to be released from detention.
  • U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston blocked the Trump administration from implementing parts of his sweeping executive order overhauling federal elections.
  • The 2nd Circuit left intact its Dec. 30 decision upholding the $5 million verdict won by E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump in her sex abuse case.
  • McDonald's settled a $10 billion lawsuit by the media entrepreneur Byron Allen challenging the fast-food chain's alleged refusal to advertise with Black-owned media.
 

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