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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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Immigration, takings, administrative law and the kitchen sink

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Garland , 20-979 , which seems a likely grant, because the government, as respondent, agrees that there is a circuit split and review is warranted on one of the questions presented. citizen for a benefit under state law. The court also has a pair of new administrative law cases, both captioned American Hospital Association v.

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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. That last case, United States v. That’s all for this term.

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Justice Breyer as administrative law pragmatist

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Orthwein distinguished professor of law at Washington University in St. 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. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, representing the Biden administration, echoed Kagan’s sentiments. William Hennessy).

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Litigation continues over public charge immigration rule

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Last term, the court dismissed as improvidently granted, or “DIG”ed , a case brought by Republican-controlled states challenging the government’s repeal of a Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule. Two months into the Biden administration, the government took an unusual step. Cook County, Illinois.

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The Major Questions Doctrine is a Fundamental Threat to Environmental Protection. Should Congress Respond?

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The Scramble to Identify Major Questions in Administrative Law In its June 2022 decision in West Virginia v. The challenge of meeting changing conditions in administrative law is known as the pacing problem: scientific and technological developments will nearly always outstrip the pace of government oversight.

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