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Does the federal law that prohibits encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration violate the First Amendment?

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Share For four years, Helaman Hansen falsely promised undocumented immigrants that they could, for a substantial fee, become U.S. 1324(a)(1)(iv) , the federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration,” violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of free of speech. citizens through “adult adoption.”

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Enhanced Learning with Blackstone’s Advanced Paralegal Courses

Blackstone Career Institute

Blackstone Career Institute offers a variety of online Advanced Paralegal courses that can not only help enhance resumes and learn specific fields of law but also can ensure paralegals meet their NALA or NALS recertification requirements.

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Guantanamo detainee loses bid to dismiss charges and disqualify judge over conflicts of interest

JURIST

Navy Captain named Kirk Waits presided over the commission before becoming the Deputy Director of the Navy Office of the Judge Advocate General Criminal Law Division of the Department of Defense. He had applied to other positions while still in his role overseeing the commission as well.

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US prosecutors arrest two Myanmar citizens for plot to attack UN ambassador

JURIST

US prosecutors announced Friday the arrest of two Myanmar citizens for a plot to injure or kill Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN) who represents Myanmar’s elected government. The plan involved hiring attackers to injure Tun to force him to step down from his post and killing him upon refusal.

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British Minister Faces New Charges Under Counter-Terrorism Laws for Criticizing a Trans Woman

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Today, a trial will begin for a French politician who was charged for criticizing immigration as a public danger. In the meantime, a Christian street preacher was reportedly facing criminal charges in the United Kingdom for declaring that a trans woman was really a “gentleman” and a “man in woman’s clothing.”

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Health care fraud case sharpens dispute over what counts as “aggravated identity theft”

SCOTUSBlog

In three of the past four terms, the Supreme Court has rejected broad readings of white-collar criminal laws urged by the federal government. Those decisions concerned conduct ranging from wire and computer fraud to tax violations. A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: Momphard v. Cuker Interactive, LLC v.

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EU dispatch: Greek neo-Nazi party appeal prompts bar association probe as lawyer makes Nazi salutes in court

JURIST

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Panagiotis Lampropoulos is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently doing a year of required military service in Greece. .

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