By Max Mitchell | August 8, 2018
Judge A. Ashley Tabaddor, the head of the immigration judges' union, filed a grievance with the DOJ's Executive Office of Immigration Review over the removal of a colleague in Philadelphia.
By John Council | August 7, 2018
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in a split decision that a U.S. Border Patrol agent can be sued after he shot and killed a Mexican teenager while standing on American soil.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | August 6, 2018
Efforts by current and past administrations to tighten immigration are justified by the need to enforce existing immigration law. The basic premise is unassailable. However, there is at least one other equally unassailable rule: The government must itself follow the law.
By Mike Scarcella | August 3, 2018
U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington DC: "A conclusory assertion that a prior policy is illegal, accompanied by a hodgepodge of illogical or post hoc policy assertions, simply will not do. The court therefore reaffirms its conclusion that DACA's rescission was unlawful and must be set aside."
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | August 3, 2018
The decision to replace a local immigration judge with a supervising judge from Washington, D.C., was an unusual move, but, according to immigration lawyers in Philadelphia, it fit a pattern that is becoming very clear to both the bench and bar—immigration judges have far less autonomy than they did under previous administrations.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Christopher Dunn | August 3, 2018
In his Civil Rights & Civil Liberties column, Christopher Dunn compares the ban on citizens of a group of predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States, to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
By Cheryl Miller | August 1, 2018
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the Trump administration in a dispute over cutting certain funds to so-called sanctuary cities. But the panel struck down a nationwide injunction. The U.S. Justice Department led by Jeff Sessions has railed on the rising number of nationwide injunctions.
By R. Robin McDonald | July 30, 2018
The judge's order also includes words that the agencies are required to search for.
By Michael Riccardi | July 30, 2018
The lawsuit asked for a court order forcing the government to come up with meaningful guidelines to process the waiver requests.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Patricia E. Farrell and Joel Pfeffer | July 26, 2018
Attorneys tasked with managing international mergers and acquisition (M&A) deals are faced with a myriad of challenges, involving company finances, management principles, foreign regulations and cultural differences.
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