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Former Denmark immigration minister sentenced to prison for illegal family separation

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The Danish Court of Impeachment, or Rigsretten, Monday sentenced former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg to 60 days in prison. As immigration minister, Støjberg was responsible for administrating and enforcing Danish immigration law during the 2015 European migration crisis.

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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.”

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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. She was detained and subsequently applied for a type of humanitarian relief known as “withholding of removal” under the Immigration & Nationality Act.

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Practice Area Switcharoo: Become An Expert in Anything

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Ask a Law Librarian. A visit to a law library is an ideal way to start. As a newbie to the topic, computer legal research can present too large a universe. That could be anything from an immigration petition to a blue sky filing. Investigate Continuing Legal Education and Specialty Bar Groups. You’re smart.

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The last grants of October Term 2022?

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Legal Services Alabama, Inc. , 1252(a)(2)(D) bars review of an asserted question of law where a noncitizen has challenged the Board of Immigration Appeals’ interpretation of the statutory extreme hardship standard found at 8 U.S.C. CVSG: 5/18/2023 (relisted after the June 22 conference) Davis 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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