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Immigration, takings, administrative law and the kitchen sink

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(He might have had to answer some more difficult questions, though, since he was even then seeking to regularize his immigration status after entering the United States unlawfully.) 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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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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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. relisted after the June 22 conference) Bystron v. Garland , 22-617 Issues : (1) Whether 8 U.S.C.

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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.

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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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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. The post Litigation continues over public charge immigration rule appeared first on SCOTUSblog.