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Federal Judge Sharon Gleason refused to halt an oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that was published by the Trump Administration in late December.

The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said the Trump Administration could not toss out the Flores Settlement Agreement that the government adopted in 1997 that covered the detention of migrant children.

A case that could impact the lives of nearly 650,000 people, often called “Dreamers,” who benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, was heard in federal court last week.

The State of Ohio cannot block transgender changes to birth certificates according to a ruling by Federal Judge Michael H. Watson.

Legislators and state officials cannot bar protesters from entering the Capitol grounds, a U.S. District Court in Iowa ruled.

District Judge Alison Nathan ruled, newly detained immigrants must appear before a judge within 10 days, rather than the weeks or months they have sometimes had to endure in recent years.

A federal judge in California ruled that the state’s ban on “offensive” vanity license plates is unconstitutional and in violation of the First Amendment.

The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that Texas and Louisiana can legally cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

District Judge Amit Mehta is considering arguments in a disputed order related to the protection of confidential information in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit filed against Google.

A key immigration rule that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits was struck down by a federal judge in Chicago.