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Immigrants suing New York's Suffolk County and its sheriff's office over their practice of holding people past their release date by request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have won over a federal judge, who recommended their proposed class be certified.

The Ninth Circuit revived a Sikh man's second attempt at obtaining asylum in the United States, finding that the Board of Immigration Appeals should have considered new information he presented in his later bid about the dangers of living as a Sikh in India.

New York City has reached an agreement with one of the five national gun distributors it has accused of selling illegal firearm parts needed to make untraceable "ghost guns" — with two others likely to settle — prohibiting the company from selling the parts in the city and forcing it to hand over identifying information about New Yorkers who have purchased them.

Investors urged a Florida federal judge to reject a bid by cannabis operator Parallel and its former CEO — who is also heir to the Wrigley chewing gum fortune — to escape a $25 million securities fraud suit, arguing that "boilerplate provisions" written into the deal are not a "get out of jail free card" for lying.

A tech company consortium is urging the U.S. International Trade Commission to hold off on imposing an import ban that would keep the Apple Watch out of the United States, at least until the Patent Trial and Appeal Board makes a decision on whether the patents at issue are even valid.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection didn't do anything wrong when it levied steep duties on nearly a dozen shipments of Chinese bedroom furniture, the Federal Circuit ruled Thursday in a matter that has been percolating through the Court of International Trade for half a decade.

The Government Accountability Office dismissed Sea Box Inc.'s challenge to the terms for a solicitation for 31 freight containers, ruling that the Defense Logistics Agency only has to take the word of a seller that their containers are a commercially available off-the-shelf product.

Florida-based cannabis company Trulieve Inc. is looking to drag into federal court a disability discrimination lawsuit that accused the publicly traded company of retroactively moving the termination date of an employee to before she suffered a catastrophic injury.

A Canadian engineering firm can't countersue an Ohio-based agricultural device manufacturer for sending cease-and-desist letters that accused it of trade secret theft related to designs for a cannabis trimmer, a federal judge has ruled, citing the First Amendment.

A farm supply store can't avoid claims it's partially responsible for the drowning of a 2-year-old girl in an above ground pool it sold, a Missouri federal judge ruled, denying the retailer's "Innocent Seller" bid because it might have learned about design defects when displaying the product.