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Hon. Jeffrey S. Chase, Aug. 5, 2018 - "An amicus brief was recently filed on behalf of a group of 20 former Immigration Judges and BIA Members (including myself) in the case of Rodriguez et. al. v. Robbins . The case, which was remanded back to the...

Mark Curriden, Texas Lawbook, July 22, 2018 - "A federal lawsuit by Texas officials earlier this year seeking to order the end of the federal immigration program called the Deferred Act for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, will have "immediate,...

BIA, Feb. 27, 2018 - "Amicus Invitation No. 18-02-27 AMICUS INVITATION (CONVICTION FOR POSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN FLORIDA), DUE March 29, 2018 FEBRUARY 27, 2018 The Board of Immigration Appeals welcomes interested members of...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Mar. 4, 2018 - "On February 16, the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP filed an amicus curiae (i.e. “friend of the court”) brief on behalf of 14 former immigration judges and BIA board members with Attorney...

"Leaders from more than 70 cities and counties, some going against their states, joined a legal brief filed Monday asking an appeals court to allow President Barack Obama's deportation relief policies to move forward. "Continuing to delay...

BIA, Jan. 11, 2016 - "The Board of Immigration Appeals welcomes interested members of the public to file amicus curiae briefs discussing the below issue: ISSUES PRESENTED: (1) Where an asylum applicant has demonstrated persecution because of...

Stephen W. Manning writes: "AILA's Amicus Committee seeks case examples for a brief to be filed at the Supreme Court in Chaidez v. United States . In Chaidez, the Court will address whether its decision in Padilla v. Kentucky may be applied...

"This brief presents a collection of case examples that AILA has compiled from attorneys whose clients have been denied visas based on decisions untethered to facially legitimate or bona fide reasons. Through these stories, AILA seeks to illustrate...

"This brief respectfully emphasizes to the Court that a ruling reversing the Court of Appeals based on a broad reading of “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” could have profound effects on immigration law. These include the unintended...

"On Monday, twenty-six law professors from around the country urged the United States Supreme Court to grant certiorari to resolve crucial questions of how lower courts should analyze the retroactive application of immigration laws. The amicus brief...

BIA, June 21, 2016 - "Amicus Invitation No. 16-06-21 AMICUS INVITATION (COMMITMENT TO MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY), DUE JULY 21, 2016 The Board of Immigration Appeals welcomes interested members of the public to file amicus curiae briefs discussing...

"Amici curiae are a bipartisan coalition of Members of Congress who were serving in 2002, when the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) was passed. The Members care deeply about the preservation of family unity among immigrant families and the fairness...

CLINIC (Bradley Jenkins) writes: "CLINIC recently received word from counsel of record in Matter of L-A- (also known as the "family as particular social group" amicus invitation from the Board ) that DHS has filed their supplemental brief...

Convenient Facts Redux by Nancy Morawetz , NYU School of Law "Two years ago, I wrote about how the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) manipulates facts about government policies and practices to advance its arguments in the Supreme Court. In...

DHS Files Brief to the BIA Acknowledging that IJs May Grant Release on Conditional Parole Under INA § 236(a) as an Alternative to Release on a Monetary Bond "On January 21, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) filed...