The strategic move will likely short-circuit oral arguments before a skeptical appeals panel — and any ruling it might hand down. That includes a potential order that could tie the hands of lower-court judges in future lawsuits.

Attorneys for a group of protesters, clergy, and journalists have moved to drop a lawsuit seeking to restrict federal immigration agents' use of force in Chicago, even as an appeals court weighs an injunction a judge issued last month.

Attorneys representing the Chicago Headline Club and local journalists who fought for a broad injunction limiting federal agents’ use of force have abruptly moved to dismiss their lawsuit as the Trump administration’s vastly increased immigration efforts across Illinois appear to have “ended.

A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to take a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of an immigrant rights group.