Xinis was born in Mineola, New York, graduated from the University of Virginia and went to Yale Law School. She clerked for ...

Greek-American judge Paula Xinis has challenged the decision by the Trump administration to deport an immigrant to an El ...

In her order, Judge Xinis accused the DOJ of engaging in a "willful and bad faith refusal to comply" with discovery obligations.

Federal Judge Paula Xinis is at the center of the case of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration that has emerged as a critical test of Trump’s aggressive ...

“To date, what the record shows is that nothing has been done. Nothing,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said at a court hearing Tuesday. Xinis’ order sets up a high-stakes sprint that may ...

The judge hardly minced her words. “Wholly illegal from the moment it happened,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis wrote Friday in describing the Trump administration’s mistaken deportation of ...

(CNN) — Federal Judge Paula Xinis is at the center of the case of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration that has emerged as a critical test of Trump’s ...

A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request that it halt the next steps Judge Paula Xinis is seeking to take in the case concerning a migrant who was wrongly deported to ...

Judge Paula Xinis, who has ordered that the Trump administration return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, by Monday, also rejected a request to pause that order. By Alan Feuer The Trump admin ...

The federal government’s attempt to avoid returning the mistakenly deported man “runs contrary to law and logic,” Judge Paula Xinis wrote. By Jordan Rubin The Trump administration argued ...