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JURIST
MARCH 19, 2024
The US Supreme Court has lifted a stay that prohibited the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries, allowing the law to go into effect. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later blocked that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.
JURIST
JANUARY 3, 2024
The case is in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas Austin Division. The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. This is not the only litigation involving Texas and the federal government over immigration. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.
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JURIST
JANUARY 14, 2023
Director Nils Muižnieks issued his statement after Greece’s Court of Appeal of Mytilene dropped some of the misdemeanor charges previously laid against the volunteers. The statute of limitations for the remaining misdemeanor charges against the two will expire in February. All we want is justice.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 20, 2024
Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A trial court in Arizona agreed that Bassett was entitled to a hearing. On appeal, however, the Arizona Supreme Court denied Bassett’s request for a hearing and dismissed his petition for post-conviction relief.
JURIST
MARCH 18, 2024
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely extended a stay blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later stayed that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 6, 2023
With the decriminalization of jaywalking in Nevada , Virginia and now California — the “ Freedom to Walk ” Act will take effect in Los Angeles in the new year — it appears that people understand this when it comes to jaywalking, but not when it comes to immigration. . In 1969, the Supreme Court held in Shapiro v. Controlling Movement.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 24, 2023
Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Pugin v. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held in Pugin’s case that it did not.
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