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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 Unfortunately, he did so through willful misrepresentation, and, as a consequence, his citizenship was revoked.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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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,...