Remove District of Columbia Remove Immigration Remove Statute
article thumbnail

Supreme Court likely to discard Chevron

SCOTUSBlog

Natural Resources Defense Council that courts should defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the U.S. The question in this challenge to the rule, he said should focus on what the best reading of the statute is.

Court 145
article thumbnail

Ghost guns, six-person juries, and discretionary visa decisions

SCOTUSBlog

The solicitor general now seeks review , supported by the District of Columbia and 20 states , which have filed a friend-of-the-court brief. Certain statutes permit the payment of “a reasonable attorney’s fee” to “the prevailing party” in litigation: 42 U.S.C. Next up is Lackey v. Amina Bouarfa, a U.S. citizen children.

Felony 143
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

President Trump invocation of Alien Enemies Act against Venezuela gang members faces immediate legal roadblock

JURIST

The statute grants the president broad authority to round up and deport citizens of enemy countries in times of war or amid an invasion or hostile incursion. During that window, immigration officials are prohibited from transferring or deporting Venezuelans covered under the lawsuit on the grounds of the AEA.

article thumbnail

Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

SCOTUSBlog

Her mother hails from Jamaica, while her late father was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2002 to 2003. Early life and career. A native of southern California, Kruger is the daughter of two physicians. Kruger went from the D.C.

Court 103
article thumbnail

We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

SCOTUSBlog

To the contrary, in the year it was ratified (1868), thirty of thirty-seven states explicitly criminalized abortion by statute.” According to the group, the court wrongly concluded in Roe that the 19th-century statutes had been enacted to protect women from dangerous operations, rather than to protect fetuses.

article thumbnail

February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Circuit to hold the cases in abeyance was to allow the federal district for the District of Columbia to resolve cases challenging NHTSA’s action that raise similar legal issues. The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases.

article thumbnail

US Supreme Court orders hold on termination of Trump-era deportation policy Title 42

JURIST

The US Supreme Court Monday stayed an order from the US District Court for the District of Columbia blocking Title 42, a health policy used to deny migrants and asylum-seekers at the US border. The plaintiffs argue that Title 42 does not authorize deportation.

Court 104