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US Supreme Court hears arguments on credibility in asylum cases

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The main issue before the court is”[w]hether a court of appeals may conclusively presume that an asylum applicant’s testimony is credible and true whenever an immigration judge or the Board of Immigration Appeals adjudicates an application without making an explicit adverse credibility determination.” Wilkinson v.

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Court will confront jurisdictional jumble in the case of a transgender woman seeking relief from deportation

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Share The nation’s immigration courts are breaking under the cumulative weight of a byzantine statutory scheme, chronic understaffing, and insurmountable case backlogs. The case arose from the government’s attempt to deport Leon Santos-Zacaria, a 34-year-old transgender woman and citizen of Guatemala.

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The last grants of October Term 2022?

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Rahimi , which involves a petition for review by the federal government, strikes me as a particularly likely candidate for review. The federal government now asks the justices to weigh in on the case, arguing that the domestic violence ban is constitutional. Legal Services Alabama, Inc. , That last case, United States v.

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Another federal agency challenges adverse ruling by 5th Circuit

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To enforce these laws, Congress created the SEC. It granted the agency the power to regulate investors through either lawsuits in federal court or internal hearings in front of an administrative law judge, or ALJ. A divided three-judge panel issued its decision in May of last year, nearly a decade after the legal battle began.

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UK dispatch: new UK justice minister stresses primacy of domestic UK law in post-Brexit human rights adjudication and policymaking

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Speaking to a Policy Exchange forum, he declared that in Britain “we have something very proud of, which is a world-leading legal profession. Legal Services in this country actually are fundamental to everything we do across a wide range of areas.”

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Justice Breyer as administrative law pragmatist

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He is coauthor of a casebook on administrative law and has written many articles on that subject. There has never been any mystery about the jurisprudential premises of Justice Stephen Breyer’s approach to issues of public law. Similarly, in Lucia v.

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Justices delve into a trio of thorny issues in states’ challenge to federal immigration policy

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Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. District Judge Drew Tipton agreed with the states that the policy violates federal law and vacated it nationwide. William Hennessy).