Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 263: Listen and Learn -- Subject Matter Jurisdiction
On December 5, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States granted review in a case that will determine the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship....more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that it has paused the adjudication of (1) all pending asylum applications regardless of the applicant’s country of citizenship or birth and (2) all pending...more
The relevant words that will determine the answer to this question are “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” These words appear in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and are the qualifying phrase relating...more
The intersection between birthright citizenship and access to healthcare has become increasingly complex following recent legal and policy developments. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14160,...more
Updates regarding the H-1B lottery, restrictions for visa appointment waivers and additional requirements for naturalization are included in the latest edition of the Immigration Insider. No Additional H-1B Lottery for...more
On August 15, 2025, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a policy memo outlining additional and unprecedented criteria to establish eligibility for applicants applying for U.S. citizenship. To...more
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) August 2025 policy memorandum on naturalization applications demonstrates the agency’s heightened scrutiny in conferring citizenship and raises questions on how newly...more
On June 11, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice issued an internal memorandum on Civil Division enforcement priorities that included denaturalization as a top 5 priority. The priorities laid out in the DOJ internal...more
On July 24, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed that President Trump’s Executive Order 14160 aimed at ending birthright citizenship, violates the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and is...more
Italy has tightened its rules for dual Italian citizenship via lineage, narrowing access to citizenship to only those with parents or grandparents born in Italy....more
H-1B Cap Lottery for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Completed - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has received sufficient congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and 20,000 H-1B...more
A great deal has happened on the subject of birthright citizenship under President Trump, including an Executive Order redefining parts of the long-standing meaning of birthright citizenship. As courts around the country...more
As an update to our previous client alert regarding birthright citizenship, on July 23, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship...more
In a fitting prelude to Independence Day, when many Americans come together to celebrate their nation, a group of dedicated MoFo attorneys assisted 61 individuals on both coasts in completing applications to become...more
On Thursday, July 10, a federal court in New Hampshire issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration, blocking the executive order seeking to restrict birthright citizenship rights....more
A federal district court in New Hampshire granted certification to a nationwide class and issued a preliminary injunction (PI) on July 10 that prevents the U.S. government from implementing Executive Order 14160. EO 14160...more
At the end of its 2024-25 term, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Trump v. CASA, Inc. that federal district courts do not have equity power to issue so-called “universal” (also known as “nationwide”) injunctions. At issue in...more
Enforcement of the Executive Order (EO) 14160 on birthright citizenship has been blocked temporarily. However, employers should keep a close eye on legal developments. While this EO does not directly impact employers,...more
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 27 invalidating universal injunctions as the remedy imposed by three federal district courts that had determined that President Trump’s Executive Order limiting...more
On June 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated a removal order, holding that a naturalized U.S. citizen could not be deported following denaturalization for fraud, where he failed to disclose a recent...more
On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision on review of three federal court orders that have blocked—on a nationwide basis—implementation of President Trump’s executive order restricting so-called “birthright...more
On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling in Trump v. Casa staying the injunctions previously blocking President Trump’s Executive Order concerning birthright citizenship as applied beyond the...more
The Supreme Court agreed to a partial stay to severely limit universal injunctions issued by district court judges as part of ongoing litigation over President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on birthright citizenship —...more
In the last decade, more than 7.9 million people from around the world have become U.S. citizens through the naturalization process. The top five countries of birth for these new citizens were Mexico, India, the Philippines,...more
In the waning days of the Court’s session this year, several blockbuster decisions were issued. A long-awaited decision regarding birthright citizenship was issued, but did not address the merits of the case itself. In the...more