Washington: A U.S. federal judge has struck down a proposed Donald Trump-era rule that aimed to replace the current H-1B cap lottery system with a wage-level-based selection process.
Judge Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California vacated a Trump-era H-1B cap selection regulation on the grounds that then-Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf was not lawfully serving in his role at the time the regulation was promulgated.
The judge on Wednesday granted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s motion for summary judgment in the lawsuit challenging the regulation, according to the court order uploaded by the Chamber’s litigation centre.
