VELAZQUEZ V. GARLAND DECISION BELOW: 88 F.4th 1301 (CA10) CERT. GRANTED 7/2/2024 QUESTION PRESENTED: Federal immigration law allows the government to grant a "voluntary departure" period of up to 60 days to a noncitizen "of good moral character"...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, July 1, 2024 "The conservative majority Supreme Court recently issued two decisions that will have a major impact on the administrative state by transferring power from administrative agencies to the courts. We discuss both...
DOS v. MUÑOZ (6-3) 50 F. 4th 906, reversed and remanded. BARRETT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and THOMAS, ALITO, and KAVANAUGH, JJ., joined. GORSUCH, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. SOTOMAYOR, J., filed...
Campos-Chavez v. Garland No. 22–674, 54 F. 4th 314, affirmed; No. 22–884, 24 F. 4th 1315, reversed (Mendez- Colín) and vacated and remanded (Singh). ALITO, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and THOMAS, KAVANAUGH...
ACLU, June 12, 2024 "Immigrants’ rights groups today sued the Biden administration over the president’s proclamation and a new rule that severely restricts asylum and puts thousands of lives at risk. The American Civil Liberties Union, National...
Britain Eakin, Law360, June 5, 2024 "The new border regime that President Joe Biden rolled out this week relies on legal provisions that courts largely barred the Trump administration from using to restrict entry, but exceptions in Biden's policy could...
Sara Rimer, EJI, May 3, 2024 "... On May 3, 1913, California enacted the Alien Land Law, designed to deny Japanese families their foothold in America by denying them the right to own land. The law was tightened in 1920 and 1927 to bar Asian immigrants, their...
Bouarfa v. Mayorkas Issue: Whether a visa petitioner may obtain judicial review when an approved petition is revoked on the basis of nondiscretionary criteria. Case below: 75 F.4th 1157 (11th Cir. 2023) Cert. pet. here . 2023 U.S. S. CT. BRIEFS LEXIS 3686...
Department of State v. Muñoz
NILA, Mar. 28, 2024 "On March 19, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Wilkinson v. Garland, No. 22-666, 601 U.S. __, 2024 WL 1160995 (2024). The decision holds that the application of the statutory hardship standard for cancellation of removal...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Apr. 1, 2024 "On March 25, 2024 Chief Justice J. Randal Hall of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Statesboro Division granted Walmart’s motion for summary judgment in Walmart Inc...
Prof. Steve Vladeck, Mar. 20, 2024 "[I]t’s been a truly chaotic day-and-a-half here in Texas with regard to legal developments concerning the state’s controversial new immigration law— SB4 . And I thought it would be helpful to try to put...
Wilkinson v. Garland "This Court now holds that the application of the exceptional and extremely unusual hardship standard to a given set of facts is reviewable as a question of law under §1252(a)(2)(D). ... The hardship determination in this case was...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Mar. 11, 2024 "On November 29, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy , a case that involves several key questions: whether the statues allowing the Securities and Exchange...
Justice Alito's orders are here and here .