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 on Friday ordered the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, to be moved from Massachusetts to Vermont, where she was briefly held after her arrest by immigration officers last week.

U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts.