Top of the Ninth: Continuances and Suppression

Top of the Ninth: Continuances and Suppression

Sep 21, 2018

Jeff Sessions issued a decision this week limiting the discretion of Immigration Judges to terminate...

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Top of the Ninth: Obstruction of Justice and Reasonable Fear

Top 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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Top of the Ninth: Robbery

Top of the Ninth: Robbery

Sep 07, 2018

Two cases came down this week from the Ninth Circuit and both held that robbery is categorically not...

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Top of the Ninth: Aug 31, 2018 – Part two

Top of the Ninth: Aug 31, 2018 – Part two

Aug 31, 2018

This week had so many decisions that I decided to divide up the blog into the two truly remarkable c...

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Top of the Ninth: Aug 31, 2018 Part one

Top of the Ninth: Aug 31, 2018 Part one

Aug 31, 2018

The Board of Immigration Appeals distinguished and seemingly overturned the Supreme Court’s decisi...

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Top of the Ninth: Aug 24, 2018

Top of the Ninth: Aug 24, 2018

Aug 24, 2018

The BIA and the Attorney General did not publish any decisions this week, but the Ninth Circuit made...

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Top of the Ninth: Aug 17, 2018

Top of the Ninth: Aug 17, 2018

Aug 17, 2018

We once again had a very busy week in the Ninth. And, the Attorney General issued a decision that wi...

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Top of the Ninth: Aug 10, 2018 – Part one

Top of the Ninth: Aug 10, 2018 – Part one

Aug 10, 2018

Summertime and the living is easy – except at the BIA and the Ninth this past week, where a lot of...

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Top of the Ninth: Aug 10, 2018 – Part two

Top of the Ninth: Aug 10, 2018 – Part two

Aug 10, 2018

Part II - Board of Immigration Appeals Decisions The BIA issued two decisions this past week, bot...

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