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Superlawyer Ava Benach reports:
"Friends, the jamón iberico is on me! I am very excited to share this wonderful decision from Judge Crawford in Vermont finding that the USCIS denial of the José Andrés Group (fka “Think Food Group”) petition for an expert jamón slicer was arbitrary and capricious. The court found that the USCIS decision was arbitrary and capricious because:
This decision is incredibly fun to read. It has everything: Stephen Colbert, Gloria Estefan, a glorious description of jamón from Eric Ripert, the McLaren F1 paddock, and the court replacing statutory language of “alien” with “individual.”
Huge thanks to my co-counsel Brian Green, who gamely tried to show OIL counsel a video of Ms. Garcia cutting ham to persuade him not to go down his disastrous path. The first plate of jamón goes to Brian.
The case is Think Food Group v. Jaddou, 2:23-cv-482 (D.Vt.)"