SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which had previously taken asylum seekers’ testimony as credible when reviewing cases where immigration courts were silent on applicants’ credibility. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for the court. Check back soon for in-depth analysis of the opinion.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2021

Navy Captain named Kirk Waits presided over the commission before becoming the Deputy Director of the Navy Office of the Judge Advocate General Criminal Law Division of the Department of Defense. With the case now before the DC Circuit, the government has offered to have any of al-Tamir’s court decisions reheard by a different judge.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2021

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court Rules on Tribal Police and Immigrants’ Testimony (Adam Liptak, The New York Times). Supreme Court will not take up Johnson & Johnson challenge of $2.1 No ‘Magic Words’ Needed as Asylum-Seekers Lose at High Court (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law).

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

On Thursday, the Human Rights Law Centre and Asylum Seeker Resource Centre co-authored a letter calling upon “[t]he Albanese Government [to] not proceed with knee-jerk, rushed legislation which continues to curtail people’s right to freedom after the High Court decision.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Panagiotis Lampropoulos is a recent graduate of the University of Bristol Law School (UK). He is currently doing a year of required military service in Greece. .

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

” Ezra found that “permission is exactly what federal law requires before installing obstructions in the nation’s navigable waters.” Today’s court decision merely prolongs President Biden’s willful refusal to acknowledge that Texas is rightfully stepping up to do the job that he should have been doing all along.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 19, 2021

” The article’s author is Frank Menetrez , who now is a justice on the court that decided Leon , although he did not sit on the case. ” The court depublished the opinion of the Second District, Division Eight, in People v. The appellate court held that, before a U.S.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Wednesday ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was properly deemed illegal in a lower court decision last year. The post DACA program illegal under administrative law, US appeals court says appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 23, 2021

The officers appealed, and the 10th Circuit reversed, reasoning that judicial decisions – not training or municipal policies – are the only valid source of clearly established law and the circuits are split over whether the First Amendment protects the right to record officers performing their official duties in public places.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. According to the eight-member majority, “federal courts are generally not the proper forum for resolving claims that the Executive Branch should make more arrests or bring more prosecutions.”

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

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. unless prohibited by another law.”

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 30, 2023

Yesterday, on March 29, 2023, the German Constitutional Court published its long-awaited (and also long) decision on the German “Act to Combat Child Marriage” ( Gesetz zur Bekämpfung von Kinderehen ). 1 EGBGB ) – regardless of whether the marriage is valid under the normally applicable foreign law. That was a long time ago.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 28, 2023

Liberal societies may be tempted to open up access to same-sex marriage to all, especially when their citizens are involved and regardless of whether the same-sex marriage is permitted under the personal law of the other foreign party. Oppong, Private International Law in Nigeria (Hart Publishing, 2020) pp. 182 ), Richard F.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 9, 2022

Supreme Court held that federal courts lack jurisdiction to review facts found as part of any judgment relating to the granting of discretionary relief in immigration proceedings enumerated under 8 U.S.C. 1255 , which would have made Patel and his wife lawful permanent residents. 1252(a)(2). Facts of the Case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 17, 2022

Egbert then checked the immigration paperwork for Boule’s guest and left after finding everything in order. The post Supreme Court Rejects Cause of Action Under Bivens Against Border Patrol Agent appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. The Turkish guest unlawfully entered Canada later that evening.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

It can be next to impossible to see how law enforcement — in league with paid, self-styled “experts” — spreads new, often unproven methods. The system is at its most opaque when prosecutors know evidence is unfit for court but choose to game the rules, hoping judges and juries will believe it and vote to convict. . … Make it sing!”.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Written by Orji Agwu Uka, Senior Associate at Africa Law Practice (ALP)*. This is the fifth and final online symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria initially announced on this blog. Those pieces of advice and legal representations would have benefitted greatly from a comprehensive private international law treatise.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 19, 2023

Supreme Court agreed to keep the federal government’s Title 42 policy in place while legal challenges continue. By a vote of 5-4, the justices stayed a lower court decision that would have lifted the policy on December 21, 2022. Alejandro Mayorkas et al.,

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The majority of the Supreme Court is once again shifting their interpretation of the law in order to support right-wing political objectives! More law schools are kicking USNWR rankings to the curb. We're now at 10 percent of law schools that say they will not participate in the ranking process. ABA Journal ].

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 23, 2018

In addition to top caliber speakers like Eric Holder, Rod Rosenstein, and Rahm Emanuel stopping by to present, major issues like #MeToo, immigration, the 14th Amendment, the opioid epidemic, the student loan bubble, bias at SCOTUS, the death penalty, the future of the Legal Services Corporation, and much more were discussed.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

Here is the column: Last year, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s “train whistle” docket with cases on abortion, guns, immigration, and other issues barreling down the track. This week, the court accepted two cases challenging racial preferences in college admissions. Well, that whistle just got a lot louder.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. Third, the court said the well-pleaded complaint rule did not bar removal. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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JURIST

JULY 4, 2023

Sharon Basch is a rising 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The most recent spate of United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decisions handed down late last week have left American citizens more divided than ever. Harper ), immigration ( US v. Milligan and Moore v. UNC, Students for Fair Admissions v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The Supreme Court also noted the testimony of the defendant’s expert on nonviolent resistance “that peaceful civil disobedience is essential to combating climate change.”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2022

Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School. In the end, though, a large part of the story turned on the question of just what it was that enabled Harlan to see the law so differently from his peers.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Parties Voluntarily Dismissed Appeals of Federal Court Decision Requiring More Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out an effort by Arizona and 12 other states with Republican attorneys general to defend a contentious Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration refused to do so. The case, Arizona v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Twelve governors write similarly that the court’s abortion precedent represents an “intrusion into the sovereign sphere of the States.” 1 in support of that law.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2022

Before I became a law student, I was tried and convicted by white folks who looked strikingly like the ones surrounding the Black woman in my mind’s eye. Just consider some of the policies opposed by many conservatives who are celebrating their Supreme Court victory. It was only the unborn Black lives that mattered to them.

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