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US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejects environmental challenge to DACA

JURIST

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision on Monday rejecting an environmental challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The complaint alleged that DHS failed to perform any NEPA review when it implemented DACA and other immigration programs.

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The morning read for Wednesday, June 2

SCOTUSBlog

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court Rules on Tribal Police and Immigrants’ Testimony (Adam Liptak, The New York Times). Supreme Court will not take up Johnson & Johnson challenge of $2.1 No ‘Magic Words’ Needed as Asylum-Seekers Lose at High Court (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law).

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Morning Docket: 12.28.22

Above The Law

The majority of the Supreme Court is once again shifting their interpretation of the law in order to support right-wing political objectives! A Maricopa County Superior Court found Lake was responsible for the ~$33,000 in expert witness fees AZ Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs incurred. Huffington Post ]. ABA Journal ].

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SCOTUS Leaves Title 42 in Place Temporarily

Constitutional Law Reporter

In Arizona et al. Supreme Court agreed to keep the federal government’s Title 42 policy in place while legal challenges continue. By a vote of 5-4, the justices stayed a lower court decision that would have lifted the policy on December 21, 2022. Alejandro Mayorkas et al.,

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

A team of researchers from Arizona State University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice recently received a federal grant to study 1,000 911 calls. On it, Harpster has openly espoused misogynistic, transphobic, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant views. Let alone in high-stakes criminal justice situations.”.

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Justices decline to reach merits of conservative states’ attempt to revive public charge rule

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out an effort by Arizona and 12 other states with Republican attorneys general to defend a contentious Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration refused to do so. The case, Arizona v.

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Legal Ethics Roundup: European Treaty To Protect Lawyers, EOs – Jenner/Wilmer/Skadden, Dozen OpEds On Democracy + Ethics, Letters From Deans/Profs/AGs, Bankruptcy Judge Resigns, O’Connor Bday & More

Above The Law

From a WilmerHale spokesperson: We appreciate the courts swift action to preserve our clients right to counsel and acknowledgement of the unconstitutional nature of the executive order and its chilling effect on the legal system. She wouldve turned 95.

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