By Cheryl Miller | March 7, 2018
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: "California is using every power it has—and some it doesn't—to frustrate federal law enforcement." California Gov. Jerry Brown responded: "This is basically going to war against the state of California." Meet U.S. District Judge John Mendez, who was assigned to preside over the blockbuster suit.
By Cogan Schneier | March 6, 2018
The lawsuit alleges certain provisions in three recently-passed California laws violate the Constitution's supremacy clause.
By Meredith Hobbs | February 28, 2018
Neither Phi Nguyen nor Jess Davis, the Atlanta lawyers who spearheaded the case, had any experience in immigration law when they got started on a massive national class action on behalf of Vietnamese refugees.
By Marcia Coyle and Cogan Schneier | February 28, 2018
Immigrants' rights advocates square off against the government on whether the ban violates the U.S. Constitution and immigration law.
By Mike Scarcella | February 28, 2018
Catch Marcia Coyle's latest appearance on PBS NewsHour.
By Cogan Schneier | February 27, 2018
In the 2016 election, Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel was biased against him because of his Hispanic heritage.
By Tony Mauro | February 27, 2018
Reading from his 33-page written dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer signaled alarm with the majority's holding that asylum seekers and other arriving aliens can be detained indefinitely without bond hearings. He called the DOJ's position that the immigrants aren't technically on U.S. soil a “legal fiction.”
By Marcia Coyle | February 26, 2018
The Trump administration lost its bid Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court to terminate quickly an immigration program that allows hundreds of thousands of immigrant children, many now adults, to remain in the country lawfully.
By Jason Grant | February 23, 2018
“Many of our clients fled for their lives and arrived penniless in America,” said Aadhithi Padmanabhan, an NYCLU staff attorney and a lead counsel on the case.
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By Michael Marciano | February 23, 2018
Connecticut's Wiggin and Dana recently broadened its leadership team with the promotion of Pakistani-American business immigration attorney and recent new mother Najia Khalid to partner.
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