Law360, July 8, 2015 - " Alice's Tea Cup LLC, a Manhattan cafe chain that has been sued by workers claiming they were stiffed on overtime pay, cannot obtain discovery of information related to the workers' immigration status or tax returns... Read More
"The NLRA protects all employees covered by the Act regardless of immigration status; however, immigration status issues may affect remedies and present certain obstacles for enforcing the Act. This memorandum provides updated procedures that will... Read More
Gomez v. Lynch, Aug. 5, 2016 - "After representing throughout the litigation that there was no record of Gomez’s purported 1993 admission (and asserting at oral argument that records from the relevant time period did not exist at all ), the... Read More
"Is there any leeway in the US visa system that might enable foreign nationals to pursue interests outside the narrow purpose of their entry without jeopardizing their visa status? One who comes on an H-1B visa to work for a specific employer as... Read More
"Gov. Jerry Brown signed a trio of immigration-related measures Monday, including one removing the word “alien” from California’s labor code because it is seen as a disparaging term for those not born in the United States. Brown... Read More
" The main lesson learned from Lateef v. Holder is that waiting outside the US with your loved ones, until they can immigrate to the US, can result in abandonment of your green card. Due to the tremendous backlogs in the family-based immigration... Read More