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                   Judges, federal government grapple over immigrant bond hearings
               
                        
Federal judges in the Northern District of Illinois are joining dozens of their counterparts across the country in ruling that foreign nationals arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entitled to bond hearings.
                        
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                   Questions about consistency loom ahead of SCOTUS tariffs hearing
               
                        
A major question hangs over the Supreme Court’s closely watched case on President Donald Trump’s far-reaching tariffs: Will the conservative majority hold the Republican president to the same exacting standards it used to limit his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden? 
                        By Mark Sherman
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                   Prominent class-action lawyer Stan Chesley dies in Ohio
               
                        
Stanley Chesley, a class-action lawsuit pioneer who took on cigarette companies and the makers of faulty breast implants until his legal career ended amid accusations of unethical conduct, has died at age 89.
                        By Dan Sewell
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                   Lawmakers approve ban on civil immigration arrests in state courthouses
               
                        
After weeks of verbally condemning the aggressive federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago region, Illinois lawmakers approved legislation banning civil immigration arrests in and around state courthouses early Friday morning.
                        By Brenden Moore
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                   Military ordered to send dozens of attorneys to the Justice Department
               
                        
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to provide dozens of lawyers to the Justice Department for temporary assignments in Memphis and near the U.S.-Mexico border that could run through next fall, according to a memo released this week and reviewed by The Associated Press.
                        By Konstantin Toropin
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                   Sisters cut out of brother’s will can’t sue for legal malpractice
               
                        
A pair of sisters were unsuccessful in their attempt to reinstate a legal malpractice suit they brought against their brother’s attorney for allowing changes to his will while he was dying that essentially cut them out of it.