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AALS - "Michael A. Olivas is known around the Southwest as “the Rock and Roll Law Professor”—a moniker he’s happy to maintain as a lifelong connoisseur of popular music and media. Professor Olivas hosts a weekly radio show...

Leslie Brown, Sept. 21, 2016 - "The win last year was a game-changer. Thanks to a class-action lawsuit brought by several public interest attorneys, a federal judge ruled that immigrants with mental disabilities facing deportation proceedings are...

"On Thursday, June 27, 2013, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) will bestow its highest annual honor, the Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law, to our very own Thomas Ragland...

LexisNexis Matthew Bender® Cordially Invites You to the presentation of the Fifth Annual DANIEL LEVY MEMORIAL AWARD for Outstanding Achievement in Immigration Law 7:30 P.M., Wednesday, June 21, 2006 Room 209 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center...

"Clinical Professor of Law Deborah Anker and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) will receive a prestigious human rights award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the leading immigration bar association, in...

"Every year at the ABA TECHSHOW , the eLawyering Task Force recognizes an organization, law firm or lawyer with the James I. Keane Award for Excellence in eLawyering. The Immigration Advocates Network will receive the award this year for its exemplary...

"IJJ Senior Fellow Martha Mendoza has won the 27th annual Brechner Center’s Freedom of Information Award for her work in testing the public’s right-to-information in 100 countries. In its announcement , the Brechner Center cited Mendoza’s...

"The city of Oakland won a record $15.1 million civil judgment against a bogus immigration consulting company that it accused of preying on vulnerable families as they sought legal residency in the United States, officials said Thursday. American...

In November of 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided the case of Dana Roberts, Petitioner vs. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs; Sealand Services, Inc. , 625 F.3d 1204, 44 BRBS 73(CRT) (9th Cir. 2010...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - (AP) Attorneys for Mattel Inc. filed papers on Thursday declaring their intent to appeal a federal judge's award of more than $309 million to rival toy maker MGA Entertainment Inc. in the fight over ownership of the popular Bratz...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - (AP) A jury has awarded $66 million to a western New York woman who was left paralyzed when a weight machine at the physical therapy office where she worked fell on top of her. The Buffalo News reports that a jury in Buffalo reached the...

LOS ANGELES - (AP) A jury has awarded $1.73 million to the family of an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who died of penile cancer that went undiagnosed for more than a year while he was in state and federal custody. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury...

JACKSON, Miss. - (AP) A jury has awarded $322 million to a Mississippi man who claimed he inhaled asbestos dust while mixing drilling mud sold and manufactured by Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. and Union Carbide Corp. Allen Hossley, an attorney who represented...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - (Mealey's) The second Kugel surgical patch bellwether trial went to the plaintiff Aug. 23 when a Rhode Island federal court jury awarded $1.5 million to a man who claims that the device caused him internal injuries ( In Re: Kugel...