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

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 ...

Judge Paula Xinis was appointed to the U.S. District Court in Maryland in 2015 by President Barack Obama. She was confirmed in 2016. The Yale Law grad has strong ties to Baltimore. She served as a ...

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland ordered the U.S. to show what steps it is taking to comply with a court ruling to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was expelled ...

a federal judge in Maryland said on Sunday. The strongly worded order by the judge, Paula Xinis, served two purposes: It offered a more detailed explanation of a brief ruling she issued on Friday ...

During the hearing, in Federal District Court in Maryland, the judge, Paula Xinis, called the administration’s evasions “extremely troubling” and demanded that the Justice Department provide ...