federal-courts
Every record this desk has filed under federal-courts, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
A September 18 proclamation extends the $100,000 H-1B payment for another year, to September 21, 2027, citing payments on over 700 petitions and a 92 percent drop in outsourcing-firm registrations, and does not mention that a federal court vacated the guidance used to collect it; USCIS's page still says DHS will comply with that ruling.
Proclamation 11069, signed September 18 and published in the Federal Register on September 23, extended for 12 months, to September 21, 2027, the $100,000 payment required with new H-1B petitions for workers outside the United States. It says the payment has been made for over 700 petitions since September 21, 2025, that the largest IT staffing and outsourcing firms cut their combined registrations from 24,946 to 2,055, and that consular processing requests fell nearly 97 percent. It does not mention that on June 8, 2026 a federal court in Massachusetts vacated the agency guidance used to collect the payment, or that the First Circuit refused to pause that ruling on July 24. USCIS's H-1B page, last reviewed September 21, still says DHS will comply with the court's order. A companion order, Executive Order 14431, tells State, Labor and DHS to weigh a sponsor's layoffs in the previous year, or planned ones, and gives the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division until October 18 to begin reviewing labor condition applications already on file.
Also filed underh-1bimmigrationwhite-housedhslabor-departmentfederal-register
The Justice Department says it has ended more than fifty school desegregation cases but named only Waterbury and Flagler County, and court records show judges dismissed both months earlier; filings in Alabama name six more districts where the same step was taken or requested since May.
On September 24 the Justice Department (DOJ) announced 'the dismissal of more than fifty desegregation cases' dating from the 1960s and 70s, which it says it seeks to end once it concludes a school district has achieved unitary status. The release names only two places, Waterbury, Connecticut, and Flagler County, Florida, and has no list, so families cannot tell from it whether their district's case has ended. Federal court records show both named cases were dismissed months earlier: a judge declared Flagler County unitary on March 4, 2026, and another declared Waterbury's school board unitary on May 22, 2026. In Alabama, filings in a 1963 statewide suit show it being closed one district at a time: St. Clair County's case is listed as closed, Tuscumbia City's was dismissed on July 7, and joint motions for Franklin County, Fayette County, Marion County and Athens City were docketed between August 31 and September 18. In Marion County the government says the district's lawyer was not responsive, and the State of Alabama joined the motion instead. The release does not say how many of the fifty-plus a judge has ruled on.
Also filed undercivil-rightseducationschool-desegregationjustice-departmentalabama
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