Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Department of Justice’s increased enforcement related to immigration-based employment discrimination is coupled with pending constitutional challenges to administrative tribunals, suggesting employers should leverage those headwinds when facing investigations or class action-style litigation, say attorneys at Jones Day.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Congress created a process known as “adjustment of status” so that immigrants physically present in the United States could change their status to that of a lawful permanent resident (i.e., In 2012, Patel was placed in deportation proceedings before an immigration judge. The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case on Monday.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Garland , an immigration case that raises a question about federal court review for noncitizens who were denied certain types of discretionary relief. Second, immigration officials must exercise their discretion to grant the relief. The Board of Immigration Appeals upheld that finding. . In 2008, Patel marked “U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2023

. § 1324b(a)(6) , and GM settled to avoid any future litigation. The DOJ also announced Tuesday a new resource to help employers identify and avoid immigration-related discrimination. The DOJ also announced Tuesday a new resource to help employers identify and avoid immigration-related discrimination.

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JURIST

MAY 11, 2023

The US Supreme Court unanimously held Thursday that a transgender migrant may appeal a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision that denied her relief from deportation. ” Santos Zacaria told an immigration judge that she was sexually assaulted in Guatemala at the age of 12 because of her sexual orientation.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 26, 2022

The lawsuit claims that immigrants who refuse to work for wages between $1 and $4 per day are threatened with solitary detention.

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LegalReader

MARCH 19, 2021

Immigrants’ rights advocates are pushing back against Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s attempts to block President Joe Biden’s latest changes to U.S. immigration policy. On Tuesday, a coalition of immigration and Latino advocacy groups announced a lawsuit against Brnovich’s office.

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Open Law Lab

JANUARY 8, 2021

We can break down two main research questions about measuring the quality of justice in different types of court formats: Do litigants in virtual vs. in-person hearings have more Procedural Justice? She explicitly studied differences in immigration hearings that were conducted over televideo versus in-person.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

California law generally prevents local law enforcement from handing immigrant detainees over to federal immigration officials.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Immigration officials ignored the plaintiff when he insisted he was a citizen, all while preparing to deport him to his childhood country.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In his lawsuit, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson observed that the so-called immigration "practice" was run by a woman without any formal legal education.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Immigration officials allegedly laughed at and "mocked" Abel Tovar Hernandez when he told them he was a U.S. citizen.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

It also empowers state magistrate judges to hear immigration cases and issue removal orders, in addition to giving law enforcement the responsibility of ensuring compliance with the law. This is not the only litigation involving Texas and the federal government over immigration. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helaman Hansen ran an immigration-advising service. Hansen charged undocumented immigrants to advise them on what he claimed was a pathway to U.S. Issue : Whether a non-frivolous appeal of the denial of a motion to compel arbitration ousts a district court’s jurisdiction to proceed with litigation pending appeal. The only catch?

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Share On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with the government in a pair of cases brought by noncitizens who are under deportation orders and were in lengthy detention, rejecting lower courts’ rights-protective interpretation of the relevant detention statute and blocking an important avenue for injunctive relief in immigration detention cases.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In many cases, it'd be cheaper for immigrants to pay a nonrefundable bond to ICE than to bother with Libre's bond services.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For the non-citizens, it allows them the time necessary to navigate the very slow processes of the judicial and immigration systems. This case is very beneficial.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The activists accused the Biden administration of playing politics with immigrant lives.

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LegalReader

MAY 19, 2021

The GEO Group says that the State of Washington is trying to unconstitutionally override the federal government's immigration enforcement powers.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The former nurse who alleged serious medical abuse at the now-closed LaSalle Corrections immigration jail facility in Ocilla, Georgia has filed suit against her former employer for retaliating against her for blowing the whistle on the private prison company, Lautaro Grinspan reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

If so, the tort claim must be litigated before the National Labor Relations Board, not a state court. In Santos-Zacaria, the court will examine the appeals process for administrative immigration proceedings. International Brotherhood of Teamsters. On January 11, the court will hear arguments in Financial Oversight Board v.

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Above The Law

JUNE 15, 2021

Reuters ] * A New York woman allegedly posed as a lawyer to bilk immigrants of money devoted to phony visa applications. Reuters ] * A New York woman allegedly posed as a lawyer to bilk immigrants of money devoted to phony visa applications. Guess the litigation ship has sailed. Guess the plaintiffs got schooled. WAVY.com ].

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court Cancels Arguments in Title 42 Immigration Case (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) Supreme Court to hear case that could reshape the “fundamental architecture” of the internet (Melissa Quinn, CBS News) As U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Since 1970, when the Second Circuit ruled it unconstitutional to try an immigrant who spoke no English for murder without giving him an interpreter, the need for greater language access in the courts has only increased. Only 37 states require courtroom interpreters to be certified, according to data from NCAJ.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The STCA was ruled unconstitutional in 2020, when a federal court found that the designation of the US as a “safe third country” violated both Canadian immigration law and section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Supreme Court’s hearing has not yet been scheduled.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Whether you are working on a complex litigation case or a simple real estate transaction, your role as a paralegal is essential to the overall success of the legal process and the satisfaction of your clients. She first joined Bay Immigration as a Senior Immigration Paralegal in 2019.

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LegalReader

APRIL 2, 2021

Activists allege that Berks County's commissioners have refused to inform of the public of their plans to use the facility as part of a mysterious federal contract.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Many of the women's claims relate to Dr. Mahendra Amin, who allegedly performed unauthorized hysterectomies on detained migrants.

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LegalReader

JUNE 16, 2021

In their closing arguments, attorneys for The GEO Group alleged that Washington does not even pay its own prisoners minimum wage--and therefore should not expect a private operator to do the same.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in two related immigration cases , Johnson v. In both cases, noncitizens who are under deportation orders are challenging their prolonged detention – sometimes many months or even years — without the safeguard of a bond hearing before an immigration judge.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2024

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), in a move that includes large-scale migration of ICE’s data from its current e-discovery provider Relativity. The cloud e-discovery company Casepoint said today that it has signed a multi-year contract with the U.S.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 8, 2023

The Inspiration for this Blog As I mentioned, I had a phone call from someone who was seeking a payment plan option for the Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp because she said, “I desperately need the course, I’m new to litigation and have no idea what I should be doing every day, and no one is available to help me.”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 25, 2022

The majority of law enforcement professionals go into the industry in order to protect their clients through the legal process: immigration paralegals help immigrants organize and file various kinds of legal documents (including visa applications and petitions regarding deportation or for political asylum), and as we’ve previously highlighted, litigation (..)

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LegalReader

JANUARY 14, 2022

But if your case has been stuck for many months or years, your best bet is to hire an experienced immigration lawyer. . Filing a mandamus lawsuit is complicated and confusing.

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LawSites

JANUARY 10, 2024

LawHelp Interactive to help self-represented litigants obtain essential legal forms. Immigration Advocates Network, to develop technology solutions to increase access to justice for immigrants. Immigration Advocates Network, to develop technology solutions to increase access to justice for immigrants.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

The paper trail revealed scores of cases involving debt collection, business partnerships, estate settlements, divorce and real estate litigation. Similarly, law firms are finding success by focusing on a particular industry or area of law, such as real estate, environmental law, immigration, civil litigation or a host of other specialties.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 23, 2022

Harvard says that, while it submitted Freedom of Information Act requests seeking information on the use of solitary confinement on vulnerable inmates four years ago, the federal government has yet to respond.

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