JURIST

JULY 28, 2023

The UK High Court ruled on Thursday that Secretary of State for the Home Department Suella Braverman must not exercise her new powers to restrict protection and support of victims of modern slavery without first considering the risks of re-trafficking.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2024

The UK Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda suffered a setback Monday, when the House of Lords voted to require the government to substantiate its claims that Rwanda is a safe country before ratifying the new treaty between the UK and the African nation.

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JURIST

AUGUST 1, 2022

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Monday that two vessels owned by non-profit Sea Watch may have been wrongly detained by the Italian government. The court found that Sea Watch has a right to rescue, despite its cargo status, under its duty to assist during a maritime emergency.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday on an immigrant status case regarding noncitizens seeking to change their immigration status from temporary protected status (TPS) to lawful permanent residency.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2024

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has deemed the transfer of asylum seekers under the UK’s new Rwanda arrangement violates international law in a legal analysis published on Monday. In response to the bill, the Rwandan government threatened to withdraw from the treaty if the UK did not adhere to international law.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2023

Share In an opinion released on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that noncitizens subject to deportation do not have to ask the Board of Immigration Appeals to reconsider its allegedly erroneous decisions before seeking judicial review in the federal courts of appeals. The court’s conclusion is not entirely surprising.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

King Charles III has given his assent to the UK government’s legislation which will allow asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda. The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill 2024 received Royal Assent on Thursday and will now become law in the UK.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon agreed to hear four new cases, including a First Amendment challenge to a federal law that prohibits encouraging illegal immigration. Three years ago, the court agreed to take up this question in another case, United States v. Instead, a unanimous court ruled that the U.S.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government’s Rwanda plan is unlawful. The Rwanda plan was an immigration policy used by the UK government to “stop the boats” of migrants arriving in the UK. The case, which began October 9, was an appeal by the Home Office from a Court of Appeal decision.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday they would hear the appeal of a lower court ruling that re-implemented Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the United States. The STCA was signed between the US and Canadian governments in 2002.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Hungarian government also built a border fence along the Serbian border and used riot police to repulse asylum seekers trying to cross closed border points. Hungary has brought the matter to the Hungarian Constitutional Court and stated that it cannot comply with the European ruling until its own court rules on the issue.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that civil immigration detainees employed in private facilities must be treated as legal employees and are thus entitled to the minimum wage stipulated by the state. The case, Ugochukwu Goodluck Nwauzor, et al v. The GEO Group, Inc.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the heart of the contest privilege the nature of the communications between the unnamed law firm and their client, in which the law firm provided legal advice and prepared tax returns (non-legal advice) for the client. Leon Santos-Zacaria is an immigrant who was removed from the US but later reentered the country.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 27, 2024

“Appeals Court Keeps Block on Texas Migrant Arrest Law; The decision in favor of the federal government left in place a trial court injunction while courts determine whether the measure is legal”: J. appeals court keeps block on Texas immigration law.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents , the Supreme Court ruled that a private individual could sue an FBI agent for violating his Fourth Amendment rights, even when there was not a specific law authorizing a claim for damages. The district court ruled that Boule’s claims would impermissibly extend Bivens , but the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

People walk dangerous routes when the government eliminates or fails to provide legal avenues that are safe, permanent and predictable whether it’s across the street or across an international border. Code made it a crime to cross the border without authorization, with a specific intent to target Mexican immigrants.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the prosecution in a case of illegal gun possession by a person with a nonimmigrant visa must prove he knew of his legal status, and the inquiry courts should follow in deciding to close the courtroom to the public.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

District Court Judge Andrew Hanan agreed with the Texas-led coalition, finding that the creation of the program had violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by not using notice and comment rulemaking in order to adopt DACA in the first place.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

. “ The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now ,” Governor Abbott’s statement reads. Texas intensified its border security measures with the launch of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star in March 2021. .”

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JURIST

APRIL 21, 2021

These cases will determine which Alaskan native groups are eligible to receive COVID-19 relief funds and will impact tens of thousands of immigrants living and working in the US under a Temporary Protected Status (TPS). They urged the court to defer to DHS’ interpretation of the statute.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 30, 2021

The case marked the second time in three years the court found the government failed to follow deportation procedures set forth in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

His day in court finally having arrived, Jarkesy appealed his constitutional challenge to the 5th Circuit. A divided three-judge panel issued its decision in May of last year, nearly a decade after the legal battle began. Jarkesy , the government asks the justices to reverse the 5th Circuit’s decision. Diaz-Rodriguez v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2022

By lifting up the symbolic political power of women, the court has now left it to those who are marginalized politically, economically, and otherwise to fight with limited resources within a social system that is designed to overlook, marginalize, control their bodies and their labor.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 28, 2023

Interestingly, the Supreme Court ruled as it did despite the fact that Namibian law does not recognise, and also criminalises same-sex relationships (see infra ). However, the same study (critically) expressed doubt as to whether Namibian courts would be willing to recognise a foreign same-sex marriage ( ibid ).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

1326 , they must prove the existence of a prior removal order adjudicated by a federal immigration agency. But if the earlier removal order is invalid on legal grounds, then how can the noncitizen use that fact to defend against the criminal re-entry prosecution? Palomar-Santiago’s legal case did not end with his physical removal.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that it was too early to resolve the legality of the Trump administration’s plan to exclude people who are in the country illegally from the state-by-state breakdown used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. Second, the president must send a report to Congress by Jan. At the Nov.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Biden administration filed the motion last week to keep the policy in place while they appeal a federal district court ruling which struck down the policy. The Biden administration’s new asylum policy was implemented after Title 42 , a controversial Trump-era immigration policy, expired in May.

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JURIST

JUNE 12, 2023

The Constitutional Court ruled in 2020 that abortion in cases of severe and irreversible fetal abnormalities was unconstitutional. However, an abortion to save the life of the pregnant woman is still legal. Regardless of the law, many patients and health care providers remain unsure what abortions are legal.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The justices will then hear the first immigration case of the term. Under federal immigration law, the federal government can cancel the deportation of a non-permanent resident – that is, a non-U.S. But an immigration judge rejected that argument, and the U.S. Tori Madden) In Wilkinson v. Garland , on Nov. taxpayers.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 24, 2020

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to delve further into contentious issues of immigration policy. If the justices take up the border-wall case, it will be the second case added to the court’s docket this term involving the legality of border-wall construction. Mexico border wall.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

That raises the question of whether a resident could receive $5 million from San Francisco, $223,000 from the state, and additional payments from the federal government. 469 (1989), the Supreme Court struck down a set-aside for minority businesses due to a lack of evidence of specific injuries. In City of Richmond v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2023

In 1977, the Supreme Court ruled in Trans World Airlines v. The court agreed on Friday to review the case of Gerald Groff, a Christian and U.S. Although the lower courts rejected Tyler’s arguments, the justices agreed on Friday to take up her case. Garland and Garland v. Cordero-Garcia.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

In a major victory for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas and Louisiana do not have a legal right, known as standing, to challenge a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

During the Trump administration, the court called for the views of the solicitor general in Patterson v. and the government recommended that Hardison be reconsidered and overruled in that case. Groff sued USPS in federal court under Title VII for refusing to accommodate his religious beliefs and practices. Walgreen Co. ,

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Many Americans consider polygraphs the sole determiner for truthfulness, whether they’re used in law enforcement, trial testimony or government hiring practices. My circle of family and friends comprises veteran immigration agents and persons with significant law enforcement experience. It’s long past time to rethink this assumption.

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MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.”

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