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The Legal Intelligencer

At Hogan, Trump Travel Ban Led to Dash Against the Clock

A team of lawyers led by partner Neal Katyal spent nearly 36 hours working with the Hawaii attorney general to meet a filing deadline in preparation for a hearing on Trump's travel ban.
16 minute read

The Recorder

Bringas-Rodriguez v. Sessions

By | March 09, 2017
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Courts Must Do Better on Immigration This Time

By | March 09, 2017
A century ago, the judicial system failed us. The courts bent and almost broke the Constitution to uphold exclusion and deportation. Today, judges, at the urging of volunteer lawyers across the country, are upholding constitutional values in the face of bigotry and fear.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Supreme Court Considers Cross-Border Jurisdictional Issues

At a recent oral argument, Justice Elena Kagan described the ­U.S.-Mexico border as a jurisdictional "no-man's land." The Supreme Court confronted those jurisdictional limits in Hernández v. Mesa, a case arising from the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager (Sergio Hernández) by a U.S. border patrol agent; the American officer shot from a position in the United States and wounded Hernández at a location across the border in Mexico.
10 minute read

Daily Report Online

Immigrant Advocates Seek Atlanta Bar's Pro Bono Aid: 'We Are in Emergency Mode'

The Southern Poverty Law Center announced a major initiative to recruit volunteer lawyers to represent every undocumented immigrant detained in the Southeast at a pro bono roundtable hosted by King & Spalding last week.
18 minute read

Corporate Counsel

H-1B Quick-Processing Suspension Worries Employers, Applicants, Visa Holders

The planned suspension of expedited processing for H-1B applications, starting next month, could derail recruiting efforts and disrupt daily life for workers at some of the largest temporary work nonimmigrant visa employers in the United States, immigration attorneys say.
12 minute read

Legaltech News

Immigration Expert Raises Concerns about Asylum Uses for DoNotPay Bot

'It doesn't replace the mind of an experienced immigration lawyer…. It may come back to haunt them later,' warns Reid F. Trautz of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Gibson Dunn Wins Parole for Afghan Family Inexplicably Detained for Days at LAX

“The betrayal of this family by the U.S. government shocks the conscience,” wrote lawyers from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Public Counsel in a habeas petition.
14 minute read

Daily Business Review

Texas Town Looks to Tell Story of Mexican Guest Workers

A Texas border town is working to restore what is believed to be the only remaining site that once helped process the millions of Mexicans who came to the U.S. as temporary guest workers under a program that started during World War II.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Travel Ban Foes Vow to Press Case in Wake of New Executive Order

The New York attorney general and other opponents of the Trump administration's first order restricting travel from certain Muslim-majority countries and suspending the United States' refugee program said they will fight the second, more limited order announced on Monday.
8 minute read

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