Top of the Ninth: Part two: DACA
Nov 09, 2018
This past week, the Ninth Circuit upheld a nationwide injunction enjoining the Trump Administration ...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Convention Against Torture (CAT) and 245k
Nov 02, 2018
This week I am blogging from the AILA California Chapters’ Conference in San Diego. I am so happy ...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Critique of the profession by Rachel Bloom
Oct 26, 2018
This week was very quiet in immigration law. Nothing came down from the Ninth Circuit, the Board of ...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: UACs and Persecutor bar
Oct 19, 2018
Who wakes up in the morning and says to themselves, "How can I make life even more difficult for the...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Mandatory Detention
Oct 12, 2018
This week after a very busy week at work, and I was quite pleasantly surprised that no immigration c...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Injunctions and 18.5
Oct 05, 2018
It’s been such an interesting week to be practicing immigration law in California. The Northern Di...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: The Travel Act & Lawful Permanent Resident Cancellation
Sep 28, 2018
This week the Ninth Circuit held that a federal conviction under the Travel Act may be a federally c...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Continuances and Suppression
Sep 21, 2018
Jeff Sessions issued a decision this week limiting the discretion of Immigration Judges to terminate...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Obstruction of Justice and Reasonable Fear
Sep 14, 2018
This week the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) redefined the term "obstruction of justice" and rea...
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