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Daniel M. Kowalski
10 months ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
CA3 on Costello, Chevron: Singh v. Atty. Gen.
Singh v. Atty. Gen. "Baljinder Singh achieved what many immigrants to our country seek: he became a naturalized citizen. Unfortunately, he did so through willful misrepresentation, and, as a consequence, his citizenship was revoked. Before that...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
CA11 on Plain Meaning: Hylton v. Atty. Gen.
Hylton v. Atty. Gen. "This petition for review requires us to decide whether a denaturalized alien is removable as an aggravated felon based on convictions entered while he was an American citizen. The Board of Immigration Appeals ordered Matthew...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
CA4 on Withholding, PSG, El Salvador, Chevron: Amaya v. Rosen
Amaya v. Rosen "[T]he only issue before us with respect to Amaya’s withholding claim is the narrow question of whether the PSG “former Salvadoran MS-13 members” is sufficiently particular. ... We are mindful that two of our sister...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Acting A.G. Remands Matter of A-B-
Acting Attorney General, Jan. 14, 2021, Matter of A-B-, 28 I&N Dec. 199 (A.G. 2021) Headnotes: (1) Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018), did not alter the existing standard for determining whether a government is “unwilling or...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
The Beneficial Impact of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Kisor v. Wilkie on H-1B Denials
Cyrus D. Mehta and Sonal Sharma, May 28, 2020 "In June 2019, when the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Kisor v Wilkie , it was yet to be seen what impact this decision would have on federal court challenges to H-1B denials. Prior to Kiso...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 2 years ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Rethinking Chevron?
Jeffrey S. Chase, Feb. 2, 2020 "The powers of the Attorney General and the Board of Immigration Appeals to influence law by issuing binding precedent decisions is greatly enhanced by what is known as Chevron deference. The principle derives from...
Ted Zwayer
over 8 years ago
Climate Change
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Dianne Saxe
over 6 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law and Regulation
Supreme Court Allows Ecuador Pollution Plaintiffs to Sue Chevron Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada has allowed Ecuador pollution plaintiffs to try to seek enforcement against Chevron Canada of a multibillion-dollar damage award against Chevron Corporation for oil pollution in Ecuador: Chevron Corp. v. Yaiguaje . According...
Dianne Saxe
over 8 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law and Regulation
Ecuador Oil Pollution Claim Can Try Again To Collect From Chevron In Canada
By Meredith James Indigenous Ecuadorian villagers can try again to enforce a controversial $18 billion environmental damage award against Texaco (now merged with Chevron Corp., one of the world’s largest corporations) in Canada. This is part...
Dianne Saxe
over 7 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law and Regulation
Supreme Court Hears Chevron Ecuador Pollution Appeal
Can foreign pollution judgments be enforced in Canada? The Supreme Court of Canada has heard arguments on the attempt by Ecuador pollution plaintiffs to enforce their $9 plus billion Ecuador judgment against Chevron’s Canadian assets, in Chevron...
Cadwalader OneWorld International Practice
over 10 years ago
Environmental
Hazardous Waste
Preliminary Injunction to Stay Ecuadorian Judgment Against Chevron in Amazonian Rain Forest Environmental Damage Case is Vacated by Second Circuit
By Louis M. Solomon, Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP We have written on District Judge Kaplan's decision earlier this year - a 127-page decision preliminary enjoining enforcement, anywhere in the world, of an Ecuadorian judgment...
LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff
over 10 years ago
Environmental
Hazardous Waste
LexisNexis® Legal News Podcast - Chevron and California Reach Settlement on Underground Gasoline Storage Tanks
California announces a proposed $24.5 million settlement with Chevron owners involving underground gasoline storage tanks (third story in podcast at 3:40), and the Mississippi Supreme Court reverses a multi-million lead verdict against Sherwin-Williams...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 10 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Third Circuit on social group, Chevron, exhaustion: Valdiviezo-Gamez II
"In Lin v. Attorney General, 543 F.3d 114 (3d Cir. 2008), we held that “the BIA’s consideration of an issue is sufficient to provide us with jurisdiction over that issue" even if the petitioner fails to raise the issue before the...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 5 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
CA5 on Chevron, Adjustment, Admission and Proper NTA Charging: Marques v. Lynch
Marques v. Lynch, Aug. 19, 2016 - "We are urged to press on beyond the seemingly clear language of the statute into the ambiguity created by the overall operation of the INA. The possibility of venturing beyond the confines of Sections 1227(a)(1...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 6 years ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
CA5 on Asylee Adjustment/Termination, C-J-H-, Chevron: Ali v. Lynch
Ali v. Lynch, Feb. 22, 2016 - "When affirming IJ Greenstein’s assertion that Ali’s LPR status terminated his asylum status, and as a result, Ali’s deportation proceedings could commence without termination of his asylum status,...
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