By Karen Sloan | August 29, 2017
While the FIU community generally gives Alex Acosta high marks for the seven years he served as dean, the group is unhappy with his silence regarding President Trump's hardline stance on immigration and controversial statements on race.
By C. Ryan Barber and Cheryl Miller | August 29, 2017
"He's a litigator by nature, and a fighter," a former law partner of Sylvester Turner, the Houston mayor, once recalled. Turner, a Harvard Law School graduate who previously worked at then-Fulbright & Jaworski, before co-founding his own firm, is the public face now of Houston's response to Hurricane Harvey. His resiliency is being tested in ways his law partner couldn't have envisioned. Catastrophic flooding from the storm has crippled courts and shuttered law firms. Here are highlights from Turner's ties to the law.
By Cogan Schneier | August 28, 2017
A three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments Monday over whether a lower court's ruling allowing grandparents and other family members of U.S. residents to enter the country was wrongly decided.
By therecorder | The Recorder | August 28, 2017
9th Cir.; 14-72003 The court of appeals denied in part and dismissed in part a petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. The…
By Cheryl Miller | August 28, 2017
As California lawmakers moved Monday to shield the immigration statuses of litigants and witnesses in open court, debate continued to swirl over President Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Several former federal judges offered their thoughts on the president's grant of clemency.
By Jenna Greene | August 24, 2017
When President Donald Trump indicated on Tuesday that he plans to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio, he signaled a frightening disregard for the judiciary and the rule of law.
By Cheryl Miller | August 22, 2017
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Tuesday pushed back against criticism of her pleas to federal authorities to stop courthouse arrests of undocumented immigrants, telling a Sacramento gathering that she's challenging arrest policies, not immigration laws.
By therecorder | The Recorder | August 18, 2017
9th Cir.; 15-70885 The court of appeals affirmed a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals. The court held that the board properly found that a…
By CHRIS POWELL | August 18, 2017
Both sides in the immigration controversy are destroying the law in their own way.
By MICHAEL BOOTH | August 17, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday awarded an 11th-hour deportation reprieve to a Guatemalan native and married father of two young children living in Connecticut, who was less two hours from being deported.
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