California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Aug. 15, 2019 "California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey today led a multistate coalition in filing a comment letter opposing the Trump Administration’s attempt...
Kate Sullivan, CNN, June 20, 2019 "A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday blocked federal authorities from making civil immigration arrests inside the state's courthouses. US District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction that blocks...
Goodwin Procter, Apr. 29, 2019 "Today, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), and the Chelsea Collaborative filed a groundbreaking lawsuit demanding...
"A Waltham man and his company have been ordered by a judge to stop engaging in the unauthorized practice of law and to stop providing services related to immigration matters, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today. The complaint, filed in Suffolk...
" Gordon v. Napolitano is a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of immigration detainees in Massachusetts who are unlawfully subject to mandatory, no-bond detention. Khoury v. Asher is a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of immigration detainees in...
"Obama administration officials have announced that a contentious fingerprinting program to identify [unauthorized] immigrants will be extended across Massachusetts and New York next week, expanding federal enforcement efforts despite opposition from...
"An application for a firearm license or permit cannot be denied solely on the basis of the applicant’s status as a lawful permanent resident alien, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. “Any classification based on the assumption that lawful permanent...
"The state’s highest court has handed a victory to legal immigrants in Massachusetts who sued because they were excluded from subsidized health coverage. The Supreme Judicial Court said that the law excluding the immigrants “violates their rights to...
CA1, Sept. 1, 2020 "The district court determined that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits of this argument and preliminarily enjoined ICE from implementing the Directive or otherwise civilly arresting individuals attending court on official...
NIJC, July 24, 2017 - "Today, in another legal blow to U.S. Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement’s (ICE) use of immigration detainers, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided that police or judicial authorities’ practice of holding people pursuant...
"The issue on appeal is whether a noncitizen defendant, admitted into the United States as a refugee, is entitled to withdraw his guilty plea to a complaint charging assault by means of a dangerous weapon, where his attorney did not make a reasonable inquiry...
"The court, reaffirming its view that § 1226(c) includes a six-month “reasonableness” limitation on the length of no-bail detention, will formally award the class judgment as a matter of law. ... [B]ecause the court possesses jurisdiction to issue class-wide...
" On Monday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held that a noncitizen received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel where his attorney warned only that a plea to an aggravated felony would make him “eligible for deportation” and...
"Plaintiff, a lawful permanent resident being held by the government pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c), has brought a petition for writ of habeas corpus seeking an individualized bond hearing to challenge his immigration detention. ... the plain language of the...
"In an important decision last week the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) confirmed it will continue to part ways with the United States Supreme Court over the retroactive application of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Padilla v. Kentucky ,...