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 Board of Immigration Appeals upheld that decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2024

Horn , the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a commercial truck driver who lost his job after he failed a drug test can bring a claim under federal racketeering laws against the makers of the product that he says was responsible for that failed test. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, which reinstated his RICO claim.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 25, 2022

This includes the processes used to identify the laws and documents that apply to the facts of a specific case, including statutes, regulations, and court opinions. Court hearings before lunch are often a common part of the routine as well. A large part of this consists of conducting legal research.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2023

Share The nation’s immigration courts are breaking under the cumulative weight of a byzantine statutory scheme, chronic understaffing, and insurmountable case backlogs. Garland , which the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday. The immigration judge denied Santos-Zacaria’s application and reinstated her original deportation order.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Garland , some justices seemed inclined to side with a woman who is facing deportation and wants to pursue her claim for humanitarian relief in a federal appeals court. The case may clarify thorny procedural questions about what hurdles a noncitizen must clear in administrative proceedings before getting into court.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

When three of the Americans targeted by the FBI learned of the investigation, they filed a lawsuit in federal court, alleging that the FBI and its agents had discriminated against them based on their religion and had conducted illegal searches. The district court agreed and dismissed the plaintiffs’ religious discrimination and search claims.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. and global climate litigation movement.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Share It has been nearly 40 years since the Supreme Court indicated in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council that courts should defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the U.S. Applying Chevron , both the U.S.

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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. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held in Pugin’s case that it did not.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

Climate change is also affecting a growing number of legal practice areas, including business and corporate governance, real estate, land use, insurance, immigration, and employment law. What does it mean to act reasonably in a changing climate? John Kerry, then U.S.

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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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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . The statute of limitations ran out due to his forgetting the deadline. A Tennessee lawyer was suspended and put on probation after failing to file a personal injury case.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will hear arguments in January in a pair of cases asking the justices to overrule a landmark decision on deference to federal administrative agencies. Raimondo headline the calendar for the January argument session , which the court released on Friday morning. The question before the court in FBI v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2024

Supreme Court returned from recess on January 4, 2024. The Court’s January session will feature some of the Term’s biggest cases, with several testing the limit of the federal government’s regulatory power. Below is a brief summary of the issues before the Court: Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Campos-Chaves v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. 23 conference and the April 12 conference — that’s six conferences — the Supreme Court relisted just one new case. This week, the court also began clearing out some relists that have been hanging around for a while.

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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

APRIL 16, 2021

The statutory question presented is whether noncitizens certified by the government for the humanitarian relief program known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, have been “admitted” to the United States, as required by the adjustment-of-status statute. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit reversed. Leaving the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 2, 2021

Share On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in Niz-Chavez v. Garland , opting for a strict reading of an immigration statute that turns on whether the government has provided proper notice to a noncitizen to appear for removal proceedings. The litigation in Niz-Chavez built upon a similar case, Pereira v.

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LettersBlogatory

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A court in Israel has ordered the government there to recognize marriages conducted by an officiant in Utah between Israelis attending remotely via videoconferencing from Israel. Probably no one would have contemplated a statute allowing a notary to take an acknowledgement by mail, or to allow someone to solemnize a marriage by mail.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Share Can the Biden administration issue guidelines setting priorities in the enforcement of immigration law? And if the guidelines are unlawful, does the Administrative Procedure Act give lower courts the power to vacate them — a universal remedy that goes beyond the parties to the case? Texas , set to be argued on Nov.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. There is nothing unlawful about conveying individuals who are lawfully in the country pending their immigration hearings. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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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. climate litigation charts. The court dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Because it appears that sitting is mostly empty at the moment, this conference will be a critical one for filling up the court’s calendar. Five years later, the court held in Trans World Airlines v.

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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. climate litigation charts. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE. 20-1530 (U.S.

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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. climate litigation charts. Spokane County District Court , No. and non-U.S. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148.

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2024

As we’ve explained in a series of articles , in many federal courts throughout the country, all or practically all cases are assigned to a single judge, giving litigants the ability to “judge shop”—that is, to choose their own judge. Simply put, district courts seem free to ignore everything the Judicial Conference has said.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 30, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday handed the Biden administration a major victory, giving it the green light to end one of the Trump administration’s signature immigration programs: the controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they wait for a hearing in U.S. immigration court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 11, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent decisions of Attorney General Merrick Garland to support the prior positions taken by his predecessor, William Barr, on issues ranging from the Lafayette Park protests to immigration to withholding information related to the Mueller investigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. 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.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday denied the Biden administration’s appeal to terminate the Trump-era Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), affirming a Texas district court’s decision that would require the administration to leave the MPP intact.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday appeared skeptical of a ruling by a federal appeals court that rejected former President Donald Trump’s claim that he has absolute immunity from criminal charges based on his official acts as president. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld that ruling.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Supreme Court. With Justice Stephen Breyer expected to retire at the end of this term , California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger is one of the frontrunners to succeed him. Her mother hails from Jamaica, while her late father was the son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Early life and career.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the year since the Supreme Court embraced the “major questions doctrine” (MQD), industry and Republican state attorneys general have argued that federal regulations ranging from stricter vehicle emissions standards to climate change disclosures must be struck down under its banner. Env’t Prot.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

Share For the third time this term, the Supreme Court will weigh in on whether someone can stage an intervention – the legal kind, that is. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit struck down an earlier version of the law. On Monday, in Berger v. It was the legislature’s second effort in five years to impose an ID requirement for voting.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2022

Earlier this month, Los Angeles County filed a petition in California Superior Court to hold Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva in contempt for deliberately and openly ignoring three subpoenas issued by the state Civilian Oversight Commission (COC) last fall. .”

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