A federal appeals court in Chicago has ruled that Border Patrol Commander-At-Large Gregory Bovino does not have to attend daily meetings with a judge to discuss federal immigration agents' use of force in Chicago, as the judge had ordered earlier this week.

A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' order for Bovino to attend daily hearings in her courtroom would place her "in the position of an inquisitor rather than that of a neutral adjudicator" of an ongoing lawsuit over immigration agents' tactics.

They also said Ellis' order "sets the court up as a supervisor of Chief Bovino's activities, intruding into personnel management decisions of the Executive Branch. These two problems are related and lead us to conclude that the

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