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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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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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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. Breyer has always displayed ambivalence toward this doctrine.

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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.

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“Remain in Mexico” and Texas’ anti-abortion law

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immigration court. After Texas and Missouri challenged that decision, a federal district court vacated the secretary’s termination, in part on the administrative-law ground that the decision was insufficiently explained. solicitor general argues that the statutory basis for the Trump administration’s policy, 8 U.S.C.

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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. Following the West Virginia decision, analysis of the MQD has proliferated as legal scholars grapple with the doctrine’s lack of definition. However, it objected to the EPA’s interpretation of its authorizing statute.

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