A federal judge in Boston ordered federal immigration authorities to transfer Tufts international student Rumeysa Ozturk's lawsuit over her detainment to Vermont. Why it matters: The ruling enables attorneys for Ozturk,

A federal judge has moved a case involving at Tufts University doctoral student being held at an immigration facility in Louisiana to Vermont.

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts, driven to Vermont and flown to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government was trying to argue her court case.

Tufts doctoral student and research assistant was picked up on the street close to her home by masked federal agents in plain clothes

Judge Denise Casper ruled Ozturk's petition will be heard in Vermont, not Louisiana as requested by Trump administration

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, was taken into custody by immigration officials on March 25.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student in child psychology at Tufts University in Medford, was standing alone on a sidewalk last Tuesday when she was