Villarreal v. City of Laredo "If the First Amendment means anything, it surely means that a citizen journalist has the right to ask a public official a question, without fear of being imprisoned. Yet that is exactly what happened here: Priscilla Villarreal...
ImmigrationProf Blog, July 19, 2021 " The Immigrant Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law and the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic filed a joint complaint with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil...
U.S. v. Sineneng-Smith - "Defendant-Appellant Evelyn Sineneng-Smith was convicted on two counts of encouraging and inducing an alien to remain in the United States for the purposes of financial gain, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) & § 1324...
Sept. 19, 2017: In a pending appeal of a federal criminal prosecution, USA v. Sineneng-Smith , a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit asked amici to brief the following questions regarding 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) " - 1. Whether...