LegalReader

APRIL 29, 2022

An attorney for several migrants said her clients were kept in custody after they posted bond--and even after prosecutors dropped charges against them.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton offered to end a whistleblower lawsuit against him on Thursday by not contesting the facts of the case and accepting any judgment against him. Last year, t he Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach Paxton by a vote of 121 to 23. Paxton was acquitted on all charges at his impeachment trial.

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LegalReader

MAY 7, 2022

The non-profit State Bar Foundation alleges that Paxton misused his office to support lawsuits propagating election conspiracy theories.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2023

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Environment and Natural Resources Division sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Interim Attorney General Angela Colmenero on Thursday over the legality of Texas deploying floating barriers in the Rio Grande. Constitution and the Texas Constitution.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

But there is another, bigger, problem with the diversity rationale that has been largely ignored by courts and litigants: In pursuing diversity, colleges universally rely on racial classifications derived from the Office of Management and Budget’s 1977 Statistical Directive No. Both of these problems have been debated in detail in past cases.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Texas , 599 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. In their opinion, Congress specifically prohibited courts from issuing injunctions related to certain immigration laws. In United States v. 1231(a)(2) ).

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LegalTalkNetwork

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Texas Law Hawk Gets Loud About Marketing. Bryan Wilson, the Texas Law Hawk, joins Above The Law’s Joe Patrice, LegalZoom’s Chas Rampenthal, and Legal Talk Network’s Laurence Colletti to discuss personal branding and benefits/pitfalls therein. Listen Here: Clio Cloud 2016: Texas Law Hawk Gets Loud About Marketing.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

8, the justices will hear oral argument in a dispute involving a doctrine known as the “voluntary cessation” doctrine – the principle that plaintiffs can continue to litigate their case unless the defendant shows that it cannot simply resume the conduct that prompted the lawsuit after the case is dismissed. Texas (Jan. Singh , Jan.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But since it's about hurting immigrants seeking legal asylum, the "Don't Tread on Me" folks seem unconcerned. After 60 Minutes ran a bit on litigation funding, the Chamber of Commerce blasted out a press release about the grave danger of ordinary people being financially able to pursue valid claims against companies. . Texas Lawyer ].

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The conservative-led lawsuit asks a federal court to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program within two years.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 20, 2024

“Appeals Court Considers Reviving Texas Migrant Law, Now on Hold; As dizzying legal developments sowed confusion along the border, an appeals court panel appeared split over whether Texas’ migrant arrest law should remain on hold while the court fight continues”: J. David Goodman of The New York Times has this report.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 12, 2023

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims that recent changes to the so-called "public charge" rule will make it more difficult to determine whether green card applicants are likely to rely on government benefits.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As they considered the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 12, the justices wondered aloud how the case would affect hypothetical state efforts to ban products from out-of-state companies that employ unauthorized immigrants, forbid labor unions, or refuse to fund certain types of health care.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Texas , involving alleged sex discrimination in juror selection (over the dissent of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson); six-time relist McKesson v. A federal district judge in Texas invalidated the rule and entered a national injunction against it. The court denied review of nine-time relist Compton v.

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LegalReader

MAY 6, 2021

The United States Supreme Court declined to review a lawsuit filed by Texas and 13 other states, which had sought to revive the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Texas to enforce a controversial law that would allow state law enforcement officials to arrest individuals suspected of entered the United States illegally. A parallel lawsuit, filed by El Paso County and two immigrants’ rights groups, was consolidated with the government’s case. But the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. marshals followed Jade Benning, a 48-year-old mother of three with jet-black hair, as she picked up her youngest son from school in Austin, Texas. Three days later, he taught a 911 call analysis course in Texas.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 23, 2018

In addition to top caliber speakers like Eric Holder, Rod Rosenstein, and Rahm Emanuel stopping by to present, major issues like #MeToo, immigration, the 14th Amendment, the opioid epidemic, the student loan bubble, bias at SCOTUS, the death penalty, the future of the Legal Services Corporation, and much more were discussed.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic. There is nothing unlawful about conveying individuals who are lawfully in the country pending their immigration hearings.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Share Can the Biden administration issue guidelines setting priorities in the enforcement of immigration law? Texas , set to be argued on Nov. In 2011, John Morton, then the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, issued a series of memos setting enforcement priorities. But if nothing else, they set the tone.

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LegalReader

APRIL 14, 2021

Texas says the move has led to a surge in illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Mexico border.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The justices will tackle a wide range of issues, from the Environmental Protection Authority’s power to regulate greenhouse gases to an effort by a group of states to defend a controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration declined to do so. Texas (Feb. Texas (Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday declined to immediately resolve an attempt by 14 states to revive litigation over a controversial Trump-era immigration rule after the Biden administration declined to defend it in court. Ten days after the court dismissed the case , it was the states’ turn to come to the Supreme Court.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. What makes you unique or innovative?

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. Indeed, I teach in torts where an immigrant to the United States filed a tort action for an involuntary inoculation upon entry in O’Brien v. YouTube screengrab. DeSantis.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 24, 2021

immigration court. The decision means that the Biden administration must resume enforcing the policy “in good faith” while litigation continues in the lower courts. After the Biden administration ended the policy, Texas and Missouri went to federal court in Texas to challenge that decision. foreign policy.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

immigration court. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit holding that the policy was likely inconsistent with both federal immigration law and international law, but the justices dismissed the case in June 2021 after the Biden administration ended the policy. 29 decision to end the program has any legal effect.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

To its credit, the Fifth Circuit did not give the Klain tweet the weight that the Ninth Circuit gave Trump’s tweets in its rulings against his immigration orders. Nothing could be more damaging to the litigation and the federal courts quickly rejected the CDC and Tribe arguments. Here is the opinion: BST Holdings v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Ironically, this move comes on the same day that Attorney General Merrick Garland denounced the “clever” use of the Texas abortion law to make it more difficult to challenge. It is again politics driving litigation by the Justice Department. The question is whether this clever work around will in fact work.

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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. In re: Border Infrastructure Environmental Litigation , No. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-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. Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Trump administration appears to have intentionally set up a series of last-minute, inter-state agreements to confound Biden's anticipated attempts at immigration reform.

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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. Texas Against High-Speed Rail, Inc. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S. In re Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

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. In Texas v. A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: Texas v. Cook County, Illinois.

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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

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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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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