On September 18, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of deporting immigrants to third countries without adequate notice and an opportunity to object violates due process.  The decision largely affirmed a ruling in February by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who had ruled that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) third-country removal policy was unlawful.

                On September 24, 2026, the European Commission started infringement procedures by sending a letter of formal notice to Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Romania for failing to fully notify national measures transposing certain provisions of the sixth Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/1640).

                On September 20, 2026, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Quinones announced that 18 suspects were extradited from Haiti to Miami on a military aircraft. The extradition comes as part of a broader sweep of arrests relating to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. Of the 30 arrests made, 12 others were detained in various other locations.

                At its 33^rd meeting held on September 30, 2026, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted its resolution and recommendation on threats to the International Criminal Court. The debate as well as recommendation and resolution were based on a Report prepared by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.  The Assembly, meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg, expressed its concern regarding attempts “to threaten and intimidate international judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC)”, by subjecting them to coercive measures for undertaking their functions as part of the international criminal justice system.

            On September 17, 2026, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in an opinion by Judge Vice Chhabria ordered the enforcement of IRS summonses issued to banks at the request of the South Korean National Tax service, holding that the IRS properly relied on the South Korean government’s representations and that the individual under investigation was not entitled to advance notice since the summonses related to foreign taxes.

                 The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has expanded the sectors of the Iranian economy subject to secondary sanctions, suspended several longstanding general licenses and other authorizations, imposed additional sanctions targeting Iran’s civil aviation sector, and adopted a presumption of denial for Iran-related specific license applications. At the same time, the United States has continued to ease restrictions on Syria, including rescinding its designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but the full implementation of that change is yet to come.

               INTERPOL cases arising from family disputes may generate several forms of data at once: a Red or Blue Notice concerning a parent and a Yellow Notice concerning a child.  Although each Notice remains subject to its own legal test, reviewing the files in isolation may conceal the common factual basis and the continuing purpose of the data. This article examines the procedural basis for linked review before the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files, analyses three published CCF decisions, and describes an anonymized matter in which requests concerning a mother and child were presented as a connected factual group.  It argues that coordinated applications can improve the accuracy of the CCF’s assessment without creating any presumption of deletion.

               On September 17, 2026, the European Parliament adopted its resolution on narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters. As criminal drug trafficking networks become more interconnected, organized and aggressive, Members of European Parliament (MEPs) are asking for a comprehensive, coordinated European Union (EU)-wide response in a resolution adopted on Thursday with 601 votes in favor, 4 against and 5 abstentions.

            On September 9, 2026, a federal magistrate judge in Miami ordered Andrew (39) and Tristan Tate (38) to remain in federal detention while they fight extradition to the United Kingdom (UK). The brothers — dual citizens of the United States and Britain — are popular right-wing streamers who now face several charges including rape and human trafficking from the UK, all of which they have denied. They also face ongoing charges from a 2022 arrest in Romania, where they previously lived.

                Five European countries say they have requested evidence from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) under Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaties (MLATs) with respect to investigations related to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and have yet to receive assistance. The DOJ said it does not comment on the status of MLAT requests with foreign counterparts.