Federal judge releases Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born cancer researcher accused of smuggling frog embryo samples, while limiting her travel and maintaining custody of her passport.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer orders the Trump administration to return the control of the California National Guard to Governor Gavin Newsom

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.

But even as the judge said that Trump should return control of the National Guard to Newsom "forthwith," he stayed his temporary restraining order — giving the federal government enough time to swiftly appeal.

U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz highlights the chilling impact of Marco Rubio's dubious rationale for deporting students whose views offend him.

A federal judge has decreed that Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian Columbia University protest leader, cannot be detained or deported and set the stage for him to go free as early as Friday.

The development comes a day after an appeals court temporarily blocked a judge’s order that directed President Trump to return control of the California National Guard.

"This vindicates what Mahmoud has maintained since day one — that the government cannot detain or deport him based on Rubio’s say-so," Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer for Khalil and a law professor at the City University of New York, said in a statement.