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 case, Santos-Zacaria v.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Share The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that noncitizens who have been granted temporary humanitarian relief from deportation cannot use the process known as “adjustment of status” to obtain lawful permanent residency in the United States without leaving the country. The court ruled in Sanchez v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2021

Eight years later, an immigration judge found that his California conviction for driving under the influence was an aggravated felony under the federal immigration laws. But six years after his deportation, the Supreme Court ruled in Leocal v. The Court briefly addressed some of Palomar-Santiago’s arguments.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. The crux of the case rests on Article III of the US Constitution, which governs the Court’s judicial purview. ” Texas Governor Greg Abbott criticized the ruling, saying , “This decision is outrageous. .” SCOTUS [the Supreme Court] gives the Biden Admin.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2024

The district court ruled for Medical Marijuana and the other companies on Horn’s RICO claim. The companies came to the Supreme Court last fall, asking the justices to take up the case and weigh in. The justices granted two other petitions for review on Monday: Bouarfa v.

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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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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the decriminalization of jaywalking in Nevada , Virginia and now California — the “ Freedom to Walk ” Act will take effect in Los Angeles in the new year — it appears that people understand this when it comes to jaywalking, but not when it comes to immigration. . In 1969, the Supreme Court held in Shapiro v. Controlling Movement.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

Garland , reversing a lower court’s decision that had limited access to “cancellation of removal,” an important form of relief for noncitizens in deportation proceedings. That rule can foreclose access to immigration relief by preventing noncitizens from accruing the time required for eligibility.

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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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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.

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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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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

The statute of limitations ran out due to his forgetting the deadline. A Chicago immigration lawyer moved for an emergency stay of removal for a client after an asylum application was denied. Most states implement rule changes in batches, two or four times per year. The Solution: Integrated Court Rules.

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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. Refugio Palomar-Santiago’s case illustrates two broader themes: first, the various interactions between the civil immigration and criminal legal systems, and second, the ongoing complexity of the immigration laws.

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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. Justice Samuel Alito was the lone dissenter.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday stayed an order from the US District Court for the District of Columbia blocking Title 42, a health policy used to deny migrants and asylum-seekers at the US border. The plaintiffs argue that Title 42 does not authorize deportation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Groff sued USPS in federal court under Title VII for refusing to accommodate his religious beliefs and practices. The trial court ruled for the Postal Service under Hardison , and the U.S. Natural Resources Defense Council to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ interpretation of that phrase. Yegiazaryan v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

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. In her cert petition, the U.S. Texas abortion law. District Judge Robert Pitman. The law, S.B.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

The provision establishes procedures to be followed in determining what services a child requires, and creates a right to bring a civil action in court to enforce its provisions. But on remand, the Texas court ruled that the inadequate counsel had not prejudiced Andrus.

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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. New York City’s response to the 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6) issues is due on March 30. appeal Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Share The Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up a dispute over whether transgender students must be allowed to use restrooms that match their gender identities. Two new grants on immigration, free speech. An immigration judge ordered their deportation, and the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld that ruling.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Allowing the emergency declarations to expire will unravel an array of federal policies on issues like free at-home tests, temporary Medicaid coverage, and even immigration. The plan is on hold as a result of lower-court rulings, and in a pair of cases being argued at the Supreme Court on Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Her mother hails from Jamaica, while her late father was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. That interpretation, Kruger reasoned, is more consistent with both the text of the statute and the California legislature’s intent in enacting the law. Early life and career.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If the renewal license was an order, the First Circuit asked the state court to address whether the CCA expressly preempted the ordinance challenged in this case. The Immigration and Protection Tribunal denied his claim in a decision affirmed by the New Zealand High Court and the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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JURIST

JULY 25, 2023

However, Tigar dismissed this argument, writing, “[T]he agencies were preparing for the end of Title 42 well before it was announced, such that they could have issued the Notice with sufficient time to grant a longer comment period and still have had the Rule in place when Title 42 expired.”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Take the series of losses recently by the Biden Administration in areas like immigration. For example, in terminating policies like Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, the Supreme Court ruled that Biden acted in violation of the federal law. It should sound familiar.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

The argument comes less than a month after the justices heard oral argument in a dispute over whether a group of Republican-led states can defend a contentious Trump-era immigration policy after the Biden administration opted not to do so.

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