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JURIST
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Specifically, the court will determine whether attorney-client privilege covers communications involving both legal and non-legal advice when the communication was created for the purpose of obtaining legal advice. In Santos-Zacaria, the court will examine the appeals process for administrative immigration proceedings.
JURIST
OCTOBER 4, 2022
At the heart of the contest privilege the nature of the communications between the unnamed law firm and their client, in which the law firm provided legal advice and prepared tax returns (non-legal advice) for the client. Leon Santos-Zacaria is an immigrant who was removed from the US but later reentered the country.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 2, 2022
On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 13, 2022
Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born In Harlan’s case, the story arc that first attracted me was the notion of posthumous vindication – how a man who went so far out on a limb in his time could land so comfortably in the mainstream of legal thought.
JURIST
JANUARY 29, 2022
Villanueva spent a large part of his childhood in Puerto Rico and is of part Puerto Rican heritage himself. ” Villanueva also promised to end the “pipeline to deportation” by cutting off the Sheriff’s Department’s cooperation and financial ties with federal immigration authorities. .”
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 8, 2021
These relists include petitions about sentencing reform for crimes involving crack cocaine , unequal treatment of Puerto Rico in a federal safety-net program , and President Donald Trump’s practice of blocking his critics on Twitter. Other petitions are scheduled for consideration at Friday’s conference for the first time.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 21, 2021
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act , immigrants can be denied green cards if, “in the opinion of” the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the person is “likely at any time to become a public charge.” Department of Homeland Security v. New York , 20-449 , and Wolf v. relisted after the Jan. 15 conference).
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