Top of the Ninth: Part Two: District Court Decisions on Matter of A-B- and Preliminary Injunction on Changes to Asylum
Dec 21, 2018
"[I]t is the will of Congress – not the whims of the Executive – that determine the standard for...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Part One: CIMTs and Retroactivity; Misrepresentation on Apps; and Pereira’s Corner
Dec 21, 2018
This past week the Ninth Circuit held (once again) that crimes involving moral turpitude (CIMTs) are...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: BIA Certification and Pereira
Dec 14, 2018
While the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) may have found that Pereira is a very limited decisio...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: The Putative A.G., TRO, and the First Amendment
Dec 07, 2018
The unspoken theme of the last few weeks within immigration law has been the issue of the separation...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Pereira, Marriage Fraud, and Harboring
Nov 30, 2018
"[J]ust as a block of wood is not a pencil if it lacks some kind of pigmented core to write with, a ...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Fiancé Visas, Rodriguez Remand, and Nationwide TRO
Nov 23, 2018
The genius of American society (at least one aspect of the genius of American society) is how we hav...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Isomer Explanations for Lorenzo v. Sessions, 902 F.3d 930 (9th Cir. 2018)
Nov 19, 2018
This week we have a guest blog by Sean Patrick McGinley a law student at Boston College. Sean Patric...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: CIMT Vagueness and Minors, and Pereira
Nov 16, 2018
I am writing this blog from San Jose, California, hundreds of miles from the wildfires, I have been ...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Part One: 288c and PSC
Nov 09, 2018
Part I: 288c and PSC After being very quiet for a few weeks and issuing no opinions on certain d...
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