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U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz, in Newark, rejected the government's argument as "unpersuasive" and ruled that the case should remain with him.
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A federal judge has ruled that the legal battle over Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation should continue to play out in New Jersey, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to transfer the Columbia Universi...
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Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist detained by ICE, are fighting to keep his case in N.J.
Federal prosecutors quietly filed more charges against Mahmoud Khalil, in an attempt to seemingly circumvent the first amendment debate.
The decision marks the second time a court has rejected the Trump administration’s attempts to move Khalil’s case to a Louisiana court.
The decision offers a venue compromise in the bellwether case, while Khalil's legal team seeks to release him from detention and block his deportation.
The government argued, in vain, that New Jersey never had jurisdiction on the case and that a habeas corpus petition could only be targeted at Louisiana detention officials.
Khalil filed a lawsuit, also known as a habeas petition, protesting his detention in New York. A New York judge previously ordered the case to continue in New Jersey because Khalil’s attorneys filed the petition while he was detained in New Jersey.
Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the encampment protests at Columbia University last spring, was detained on March 8 at his student apartment building.