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Apr 10, 2025 Courts and litigants in multiple federal cases advanced challenges involving deportation, records, education, immigration, and agency control Tier 1 · Primary Institutions and Governance
The filings and rulings showed courts continuing to mediate conflicts over executive power across many policy areas.
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- Lawyers file petition to US Supreme Court to stop execution by firing squad — Lawyers for Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina death row inmate, have filed a petition to the US Supreme Court to halt his execution by firing squad.
- Case update — Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Md.) 8:25-cv-00951 — On the evening of April 10 the Supreme Court, in a per curiam opinion without any dissent, upheld the district court order in large part.
- Case update — American Oversight v. Hegseth (D.D.C.) 1:25-cv-00883 — Following a hearing, the court ordered the Defendants to provide supplemental declarations to address “specific clarifications” missing from the first round of declarations.
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Week 12 – 2025-04-05–2025-04-11
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