Top of the Ninth: Part Two: District Court Decisions on Matter of A-B- and Preliminary Injunction on Changes to Asylum

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...

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Top of the Ninth: Part One: CIMTs and Retroactivity; Misrepresentation on Apps; and Pereira’s Corner

Top 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...

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Top of the Ninth: BIA Certification and Pereira

Top 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...

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Top of the Ninth: The Putative A.G., TRO, and the First Amendment

Top 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...

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Top of the Ninth: Pereira, Marriage Fraud, and Harboring

Top 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 ...

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Top of the Ninth: Fiancé Visas, Rodriguez Remand, and Nationwide TRO

Top 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...

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Top of the Ninth: Isomer Explanations for Lorenzo v. Sessions, 902 F.3d 930 (9th Cir. 2018)

Top 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...

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Top of the Ninth: CIMT Vagueness and Minors, and Pereira

Top 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 ...

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Top of the Ninth: Part One: 288c and PSC

Top 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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