JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Texas Senate declined to discuss House Bill (HB) 4 on Sunday, instead adjourning until Tuesday, the last day of the legislative body’s special session. Since HB 4 passed the Texas House on October 26 and made its way to the Senate, it has drawn considerable scrutiny.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

Law enforcement is mandated to collect identifying information of those arrested for impermissible occupation, which is cross-referenced with criminal databases by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Proponents of the bill argue that it is essential to uphold the rule of law and protect state borders. However, Rep. .”

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HowAppealing

MARCH 3, 2024

“Appeals Court Intervenes in Legal Showdown on the Texas Border; Action by the appeals court was likely to speed up a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on a wide-ranging Texas immigration enforcement law”: J. David Goodman of The New York Times has this report.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 11, 2024

“Texas tells Supreme Court its immigration law is key to handling border crisis; The high court faces a Wednesday deadline as it considers whether Texas exceeded its authority by implementing its own migrant deportation infrastructure”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2024

The US Supreme Court has lifted a stay that prohibited the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries, allowing the law to go into effect. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later blocked that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 20, 2024

“Texas’s S.B. 4 immigration enforcement law appears likely to remain on hold for now; Chief Judge Priscilla Richman of the Fifth Circuit, a George W. Bush appointee, was skeptical of Texas’s arguments to enforce the law immediately”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Texas federal judge ruled Tuesday that the US Congress passed a 2022 $1.7 ” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenged the bill and sought an injunction against two portions of the bill, the PFWA and a sizable appropriation to a federal pilot program that provided case services to immigrants in immigration removal proceedings.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2023

Floridians gathered across the state Thursday to protest a recently enacted law that imposes restrictions on undocumented immigrants. In what protesters dubbed, “a day without immigrants,” thousands walked off the job to voice their disapproval of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s approval of Senate Bill (SB) 1718.

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Above The Law

MARCH 19, 2024

Texas may begin rounding up suspected immigrants because the Fifth Circuit pinky swears its over a month-long stay isn't really a stay. The post Supreme Court Decides Texas Can Start Ignoring Supremacy Clause Because… Maybe A ‘Stay’ Isn’t A ‘Stay’ appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A Texas federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that ordered Texas to move its floating barrier from the Rio Grande’s main waters to the riverbank. ” Ezra found that “permission is exactly what federal law requires before installing obstructions in the nation’s navigable waters.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Friday that the doctrine of sovereign immunity bars private individuals from suing Texas Governor Greg Abbott over Executive Order GA-37. The governor shall use the personnel of the Texas Highway Patrol only if the other personnel of the department are unable to cope with the emergency.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A new Texas law allows migrants to be arrested for trespassing, attracting groups of armed private citizens to Kinney County, where they are now patrolling the border with local officials, stopping the migrants they find, and passing them off to be arrested by law enforcement who support and welcome them, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2022

The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a Biden administration immigration policy. In a 5-4 order, the Supreme Court Thursday denied the Biden administration’s application to reinstate an immigration memorandum that would stop deportation unless the non-citizen is a threat to national security, public safety or border security.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Constitution because only the federal government has jurisdiction over immigration law. More than 2,500 migrants have been arrested on trespassing charges, all of them men, with roughly 900 still being held in state prisons.

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HowAppealing

MAY 20, 2022

“Conservatives fume over tech industry’s ‘shadow docket’ play; The tech platforms’ conservative foes were caught flat-footed by the companies’ rush to the Supreme Court seeking emergency relief from Texas’ social media law”: Brendan Bordelon of Politico has a report that begins, “Progressives outraged (..)

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2024

The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked Senate Bill (SB) 4 on Monday, a strict, new Texas immigration law criminalizing various immigration offenses. In it, the applicants alleged that the aim of SB 4 is to regulate immigration, a power the federal government retains exclusive control over.

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Above The Law

JULY 25, 2023

The post US Sues Texas For Blockading Rio Grande To Keep Out Migrants appeared first on Above the Law. TFW you pretend desperate families are a horde of Vikings armed with spears. and fentanyl.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Claiming such arrests is “inherently flawed” and misrepresents the accomplishments of the operation, said Patrick O’Burke, a law enforcement consultant and a former DPS commander who retired in 2008.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Now-retired prosecutor Ralph Petty earned a living at the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in West Texas. He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. Overall, Petty simultaneously served as a prosecutor and law clerk at least 300 times. Photo by Clyde Robinson via Flickr.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Greg Abbott has ordered law enforcement in the state to step up their investigation on transnational gangs moving drugs and people across the border from Mexico, reports the Texas Tribune.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2024

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2024

Trevino and Texas v. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Texas border enforcement law again blocked in legal whiplash (John Kruzel & Andrew Chung, Reuters) The immigration ruling carries an echo of an earlier one on a Texas abortion law. Share The court will hear oral arguments this morning in Gonzalez v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

A Texas federal court blocked administrative proceedings launched by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) against SpaceX over alleged discriminatory employment practices. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

Here’s the Thursday morning read: States seek Supreme Court intervention on smog plan split (Sean Reilly, E&E News) Supreme Court’s approval rating ticks up, poll shows (Olivia Alafriz, Politico) Texas immigration controversy rekindles fight over Arizona’s ‘show me your papers’ law (Devan Cole, CNN) Florida man sentenced to prison for threatening (..)

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Texas federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday suspending enforcement of a Texas state law that criminalized illegal entry to the US from abroad. The law, SB4 , criminalized a number of immigration offenses under state law and empowered state law enforcement to make arrests and hold people in detention.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Sineneng-Smith , the justices reversed a circuit-court decision that struck down a federal law criminalizing the act of “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” noncitizens to enter or remain in the United States for financial gain. Helaman Hansen ran an immigration-advising service called Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Sineneng-Smith , the Supreme Court reversed a circuit-court decision that struck down a federal law criminalizing the act of “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” noncitizens to enter or remain in the United States for financial gain. Helaman Hansen ran an immigration-advising service. Two years ago, in United States v. The only catch?

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The Crime Report

MARCH 18, 2022

New legal filings in Texas describe an ongoing and consistent pattern of men being illegally detained for a month or more as their cases stagnate in overwhelmed courts, reports Click2Houston.com.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Survivors of domestic abuse advocates rally for access to online court to continue in Texas, Caroline Love reports for Kera News. Texas state senator Nathan Johnson filed a bill in November that would make it a state law to have online court as an option for those seeking protective orders.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely extended a stay blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later stayed that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2022

Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported having no record of these scams and only knows of actual kidnappings. Texas border county law enforcement officers say criminals are taking advantage of the unprecedented numbers of reports of disappearances at the border, with U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging a recently enacted Texas law , which gives state officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute and deport people who illegally cross the US-Mexico border. In the lawsuit, El Paso County claimed the current immigrant non-citizen community pays approximately $591.8

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit temporarily enjoined the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from cutting Texas’ wire fencing at the US-Mexico border on Tuesday. The case is an appeal from the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, which rejected Texas’ motion for a preliminary injunction.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2021

Hassaid to consider a California agricultural union organizing law. ” Under California law, agricultural businesses must allow labor organizations onto their property up to three times a day over a 30-day period, up to 120 days per year. The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Cedar Point Nursery v.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 10, 2018

On June 20th 2018, the State Bar of Texas, in conjunction with Legal Talk Network, relaunched the State Bar of Texas Podcast. If you have an interest in the law and its effect on real people and real issues, this is the podcast for you. State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting 2018: Harper Lee and Documenting Complexity.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2022

The issues before the Court involved Native American law and immigration. Texas : The case involves gaming activities on Native American land in Texas. Texas , 36 F.3d 1994) (“Ysleta I”) granted Texas regulatory jurisdiction over non-prohibited gaming activities on the Tribes’ lands.

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