SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

De George , the Supreme Court held that the term “crime involving moral turpitude” in federal immigration law is not unconstitutionally vague. Natural Resources Defense Council should be clarified or replaced to protect canons of construction, including the pro-veteran canon, from becoming a nullity. In its 1951 decision in Jordan v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2023

The question before the justices was whether a federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing” an immigrant to come or remain in the United States unlawfully violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of the freedom of speech. Hansen challenged the constitutionality of the ban on “encouraging or inducing” immigration.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

concerning California’s whistleblower statute. It followed a default judgment in the Labor Commissioner’s action for damages and statutory penalties against a since-closed night club after the club owner fired a bartender and threatened to report her to “immigration authorities” when she complained about unpaid wages.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Pugin v. Such “redundancies are common in statutory drafting,” Kavanaugh wrote. citizen].”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

8 for a packed session of oral arguments – starting with immigration policy and the post-9/11 “No Fly List” and ending on Jan. The statute includes a list of information the government must include – most notably, the time and place of the removal hearing. Share The justices returned to the bench on Jan. Garland and Garland v. .

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The US Supreme Court released an order on Wednesday granting the Biden administration’s request to remove oral arguments for challenges on now-defunct Trump administration immigration policies. Sierra Club , are both likely to be rendered moot because of President Joe Biden’s announced changes to immigration policy.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In that case, the Immigration and Nationality Act purported to empower a single house of Congress to nullify an executive-branch order regarding deportation. In my view,” he wrote , “where linguistically permissible, we should interpret the [statute] in light of Congress’s overall desire to protect health.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Under the False Claims Act, a defendant is liable for submitting a false claim to the government for payment if it acts “knowingly,” which the statute defines as acting with actual knowledge, deliberate ignorance, or reckless disregard. Natural Resources Defense Council to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ interpretation of that phrase.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Southern District of California rejected challenges to waivers of environmental laws granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for certain types of border wall construction projects in San Diego County.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. First, the Supreme Court concluded that the statute requiring Commission approval of affiliated-interest agreement did not require environmental review. The Minnesota Supreme Court adopted the U.S. Public Citizen , 541 U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. The plaintiffs—identified as environmentalists, environmental groups, natural resource conservation groups, and cattle ranchers—alleged, among other things, that the immigration actions resulted in increased greenhouse gas emissions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In a separate order, the court directed the parties to file supplemental briefs on eight issues related to the scope of authorized activities under the permit, separation of powers, and the developer’s authority to construct the pipeline without a permit if the president lacks authority to issue the cross-border permit. City of Oakland v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Agency rulemaking across the federal government – from fiduciary duties and antitrust enforcement , to telecommunications and the authority of the FDA , to immigration policy and nuclear waste storage, among many other issues – has been challenged as unlawful under the principles of the MQD.

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