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Practice Area Switcharoo: Become An Expert in Anything

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Ask a Law Librarian. A visit to a law library is an ideal way to start. As a newbie to the topic, computer legal research can present too large a universe. That could be anything from an immigration petition to a blue sky filing. Investigate Continuing Legal Education and Specialty Bar Groups. You’re smart.

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Court will confront jurisdictional jumble in the case of a transgender woman seeking relief from deportation

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Share The nation’s immigration courts are breaking under the cumulative weight of a byzantine statutory scheme, chronic understaffing, and insurmountable case backlogs. She was detained and subsequently applied for a type of humanitarian relief known as “withholding of removal” under the Immigration & Nationality Act.

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“Remain in Mexico” and Texas’ anti-abortion law

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immigration court. After Texas and Missouri challenged that decision, a federal district court vacated the secretary’s termination, in part on the administrative-law ground that the decision was insufficiently explained. solicitor general argues that the statutory basis for the Trump administration’s policy, 8 U.S.C.

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States sue Biden administration over immigration policies

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The Attorneys General of Arizona and Montana filed an amended a joint lawsuit Monday alleging that the Biden administration has violated immigration and administrative law. The Attorney General of Florida filed a similar lawsuit on Tuesday.

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In U.S. v. Texas, broad questions over immigration enforcement and states’ ability to challenge federal policies

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Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Tuesday in a dispute over the Biden administration’s authority to set immigration policy. Texas and Louisiana are challenging a federal policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation, arguing that it violates federal law.

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February argument calendar includes immigration, voting-rights cases

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Innovation Law Lab , a challenge to the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy, which allows the Department of Homeland Security to return immigrants seeking asylum to Mexico while they wait for an asylum hearing in U.S. immigration courts. Democratic National Committee and Arizona Republican Party v.

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

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In the year since the Supreme Court embraced the “major questions doctrine” (MQD), industry and Republican state attorneys general have argued that federal regulations ranging from stricter vehicle emissions standards to climate change disclosures must be struck down under its banner. Env’t Prot. In a case before the D.C. Circuit, Texas v.

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