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MARCH 10, 2025

Five Questions About the Khalil Case: The government’s arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (and green card holder) raises difficult questions about both technical immigration statutes and the First Amendment.” “131.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday on an immigrant status case regarding noncitizens seeking to change their immigration status from temporary protected status (TPS) to lawful permanent residency.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

Cordero-Garcia , involving whether a federal law that allows the government to deport noncitizens convicted of “an offense relating to obstruction of justice” applies even to cases that are not connected to open investigations or judicial proceedings. An immigration judge agreed and ordered Pugin removed.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Tuesday ruled that a Honduran man’s conviction in California for possession of a forged social security number card (SSN) with a counterfeit government seal is grounds for deportation as a crime of moral turpitude.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2022

Pursuant to the post-removal order statute, 8 U.S.C. 1231 , the government detained him. Fearing persecution or torture in Mexico, Arteaga-Martinez then sought “withholding of removal,” which bars the government from removing a noncitizen to such a country. without authorization and was ordered removed.

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LawSites

JUNE 21, 2023

A new generative AI product for immigration lawyers announced today is designed to help them conduct research, draft and summarize complex legal documents, and engage with potential clients through a chat interface. “Immigration law is an incredibly complex, high-stakes area of law. Called Visalaw.ai Called Visalaw.ai

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in two related immigration cases , Johnson v. In both cases, noncitizens who are under deportation orders are challenging their prolonged detention – sometimes many months or even years — without the safeguard of a bond hearing before an immigration judge. In Zadvydas v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Share On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with the government in a pair of cases brought by noncitizens who are under deportation orders and were in lengthy detention, rejecting lower courts’ rights-protective interpretation of the relevant detention statute and blocking an important avenue for injunctive relief in immigration detention cases.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2021

The charge of criminal re-entry requires the prior existence of a removal order entered by a federal immigration agency. That statute, 8 U.S.C. Chief Justice John Roberts solicited the government’s views on Palomar-Santiago’s characterization of the removal order as void ab initio (i.e.,

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The court must decide which of two federal statutes governs these migrants’ eligibility to be released on bond. 1226 governs; it applies “pending a decision on whether the alien is to be removed,” and generally neither requires a period of detention nor mandates supervision if a person is released. 1231 controls.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

1324(a)(1)(iv) , the federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing” an immigrant to come or remain in the United States unlawfully, violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared the most skeptical of the government’s construction. The argument unfolded in many ways as expected.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon agreed to hear four new cases, including a First Amendment challenge to a federal law that prohibits encouraging illegal immigration. After the 9th Circuit declined to rehear the case, the federal government came to the Supreme Court, which agreed on Friday to weigh in. In United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Helaman Hansen ran an immigration-advising service called Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce. A federal court in California convicted Hansen of multiple counts of fraud, as well as convincing two of his customers to overstay their visas and participate in his adoption program in violation of the encourage-or-induce statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Mayorkas that adjustment of status is reserved for those who were inspected at the border and admitted to the United States by an immigration officer, thus disqualifying the majority of those granted Temporary Protected Status. The court sided with the government and rejected the interpretation advanced by Sanchez and Gonzalez.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

8 for a packed session of oral arguments – starting with immigration policy and the post-9/11 “No Fly List” and ending on Jan. Singh , in which the court will consider what kind of notice the government must provide before a noncitizen can be deported for not appearing in court. Share The justices returned to the bench on Jan.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It also empowers state magistrate judges to hear immigration cases and issue removal orders, in addition to giving law enforcement the responsibility of ensuring compliance with the law. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2021

statutes and regulations. The Immigration and Nationality Act allows migrants pursuing so-called “withholding only” relief to be released on bond at some point; the court must decide which release statute applies. 1231 governs. Some courts hold that claims of U.S. citizenship may also be raised).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Deputy Solicitor General Curtis Gannon argued for the government that the offense did not require a nexus to a pending investigation or proceeding. The post No clear path on how court will rule after oral arguments in two immigration cases Monday appeared first on SCOTUSblog. It is unclear how they will ultimately chart their course.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 12, 2021

In argument and briefing, the government contended that the 9th Circuit rule — which took asylum seekers’ testimony as credible when faced with agency silence on credibility — violated standards of federal court review. In asylum cases, the immigration judge is responsible for making credibility determinations as trier-of-fact.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

Reading from the bench on Thursday, Sotomayor called the majority’s decision “a devastating blow to the manner in which our government functions.” For Sotomayor, cases where the government itself is the claimant were the easy cases, the very definition of public rights.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2023

She asked the government to “withhold” her deportation for humanitarian reasons. Both an immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals rejected her request. The court has set a high bar for finding that a statute restricts the types of cases the federal judiciary can hear. Appealing to the U.S.

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JURIST

JULY 6, 2024

The legal position is that the statute requires “the most clear and explicit words” to constitute an ouster clause and override the presumption of legislative intention that executive decisions are justiciable by way of judicial review. The legal dispute arose from the well-established Anisminic principle in English common law.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2011, after 60 years in which the statute did not lead to a reported decision, Kentucky sued the operators of PokerStars, an online poker platform, to recover the combined poker losses of Kentucky citizens. A Kentucky state court awarded Kentucky $870 million, calculated as three times $290 million in losses. United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Fazaga , is the second case this term in which the justices will consider the state-secrets privilege, a doctrine that allows the government to withhold information in litigation when disclosing it would compromise national security. The case, Federal Bureau of Investigation v. The first case, United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2023

Share In an opinion released on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that noncitizens subject to deportation do not have to ask the Board of Immigration Appeals to reconsider its allegedly erroneous decisions before seeking judicial review in the federal courts of appeals. The Board of Immigration Appeals upheld that decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

De George , the Supreme Court held that the term “crime involving moral turpitude” in federal immigration law is not unconstitutionally vague. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In its 1951 decision in Jordan v. He became a lawful permanent resident after marrying a U.S. citizen the following year. 1227(a)(2)(A).

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 26, 2023

The Supreme Court has issued a number of decisions in recent years limiting the reach of the federal wire-fraud statute, which outlaws the use of “the wires” – including internet and phone lines – to commit fraud. The court reasoned that the focus of the wire-fraud statute is the misuse of U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 22, 2022

In three of the past four terms, the Supreme Court has rejected broad readings of white-collar criminal laws urged by the federal government. Issue : Whether a federal court deciding a state-law issue in a bankruptcy case must apply the forum state’s choice-of-law rules or federal choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive law governs.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2024

They described the question presented by the case as “critically important,” explaining that “RICO is a frequently litigated federal statute that imposes treble damages and attorneys’ fees.” “If The companies came to the Supreme Court last fall, asking the justices to take up the case and weigh in. In Bufkin v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2023

The statute of limitations for the remaining misdemeanor charges against the two will expire in February. The court dropped some misdemeanor charges against volunteers Mardini and Binder because of procedural errors, including a failure to issue a translated indictment to the defendants.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2024

Fikre: The case revolves around the “No Fly List” established by the federal government in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Garland: The immigration case centers on the Immigration and Nationality Act, which provides that a noncitizen who does not appear at a removal hearing shall be ordered removed in absentia.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

Climate change is also affecting a growing number of legal practice areas, including business and corporate governance, real estate, land use, insurance, immigration, and employment law. What does it mean to act reasonably in a changing climate? John Kerry, then U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

concerning California’s whistleblower statute. It followed a default judgment in the Labor Commissioner’s action for damages and statutory penalties against a since-closed night club after the club owner fired a bartender and threatened to report her to “immigration authorities” when she complained about unpaid wages.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. There is nothing unlawful about conveying individuals who are lawfully in the country pending their immigration hearings. state once they are released by the federal government.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

and English courts do not give effect to foreign blocking statutes, like the French Blocking Statute, but have ruled in favor of disclosure of documents and information. 6] Robert Wai and Horatia Muir-Watt are among the scholars who frequently published on the role of global governance role of PIL. [7]

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 2, 2021

Garland , opting for a strict reading of an immigration statute that turns on whether the government has provided proper notice to a noncitizen to appear for removal proceedings. The Immigration and Nationality Act specifies 10 different pieces of information that together constitute notice of removal proceedings.

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