Beth Wang

ICE detainees waiting for their cases to be heard are asking immigration judges to release them on bond. Most fail. Our reporting team went to 55 immigration court bond hearings across five states. Here’s what we saw: news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/in-…

There are more than 22,000 active habeas cases pending nationwide, and organizations working to file these petitions have been overwhelmingly successful.

“from the beginning you can’t find them. If you find them, you can’t access them b/c there are no phones or visitation rooms. & if you do find them, it takes weeks to contact them, & sometimes they’re just moved & deported.” from @bawang @crepeau & me: news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/law…

A New York judge on Thursday signaled Albany’s top federal prosecutor, John Sarcone, acted beyond his authority when he subpoenaed Attorney General Letitia James for information about her office’s investigations. Story from @bawang, with assist from me: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ne…

The mayor’s office said it will move to dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit seeking to strike down the city’s decades-old laws that limit local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/nyc…

Roughly 20 police and ICE officers on 13th & I NE to arrest a delivery driver. He is sobbing and asking to call his family. A group of neighbors have assembled to try and help him but the agents are yelling at us to go away.

Sports law and arbitration experts I spoke to all emphasized the ruling rejecting the NFL's arbitration requirement for Flores could have broader implications for other major sports leagues in the US and companies that have similar requirements in their employment contracts.

The suit also names First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro, who city council says was enlisted him to do Adams' bidding. The mayor's office accuses city council of spreading misinformation.

A New York City law letting resident immigrants with green cards or work authorizations vote in city elections is unconstitutional, the state’s top court ruled Thursday. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/nyc…

Big NY news from @bawang: NYC law allowing noncitizens to vote in municipal elections STRUCK DOWN by state top court news.bloomberglaw.com/new-york-brief…

Attorneys representing Rudolph Giuliani in federal court were given the go-ahead by a judge Tuesday to stop working on the former New York City mayor’s legal battle surrounding a $146 million defamation judgment. blawgo.com/mle2X1c

New: Drake, the rapper and singer, is preparing to sue Universal Music Group and Spotify, according to a court filing in New York State court. blawgo.com/ekkPg0J

The New York state and federal courts are entangled in disputes between the Cayuga Nation tribal government and its citizens. I went to Western NY and spoke to nation members whose businesses and homes are at the center of a struggle for power and land. news.bgov.com/states-of-play…

In upstate New York, the ancestral homeland of the Cayuga Nation, rival factions have filed at least 10 lawsuits in state and federal courts accusing each of improperly seizing property. blawgo.com/u5bf1NI

NYC Mayor Eric Adams has hired high-profile Quinn Emanuel partner Alex Spiro as he faces a sealed indictment following a federal corruption investigation. blawgo.com/YaVOXOZ

NEW: New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on bribery and fraud charges following a federal corruption investigation. blawgo.com/eywXmYQ

Judge Dale Ho, who's fairly new to the federal court in New York, is presiding over NYC Mayor Eric Adams' case. This past summer, Ho talked about adjusting to the court, saying presiding over criminal cases is one of the biggest challenges to date. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/jud…

During Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's time in private practice, she said that “more than once” she had older partners assume she was a legal secretary (a story not uncommon for some women in Big Law.) Read more by @BLaw's @KimberlyRobinsn & @bawang. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ju…

Martin Shkreli is prohibited from possessing and selling his one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," a federal judge ruled trib.al/hSt8TI9

NEW: An abortion rights measure summary slated to be on the New York ballot contains confusing and misleading language that doesn’t accurately portray the measure’s scope, a lawsuit filed Friday argues. More here from @bawang, with assistance from me: news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…