Midyear meetings of the ABA tend to focus on the administrative business of the association and many of its entities, but when this year’s meeting opens on Wednesday in Houston,…
Feb 4, 2015 9:10 AM CST
Senate Republicans heaped criticism on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder but were mostly cordial on Wednesday as they questioned the woman nominated to replace him.
The nominee, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney…
Jan 29, 2015 11:19 AM CST
Lauren Burke graduated from New York University law school, was named a Skadden fellow and made Forbes’ list of “30 Under 30” in 2013. But her salary at the…
Jan 14, 2015 2:49 PM CST
Photo of ABA President William Hubbard by Marc Hauser
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The attorney general’s Dupont Circle home was only one damaged in multicity bomb attack on officials deemed hostile to organized labor. Photo by New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
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A federal judge in Pittsburgh has struck down President Obama’s executive order on immigration, even though a prosecutor and defense lawyer had argued the executive action didn’t apply to the…
Dec 17, 2014 7:44 AM CST
Updated: An ethics complaint accuses a Texas lawyer of telling an immigration client during a hearing recess that she couldn’t deal with the matter and then leaving the courthouse.
Irving,…
Dec 11, 2014 7:32 AM CST
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is announcing new standards today to expand limits on racial profiling.
The current ban on consideration of race and ethnicity by federal law enforcement agents…
Dec 8, 2014 10:51 AM CST
The attorney general of Texas has filed a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration on behalf of a 17-state coalition, challenging the president’s authority to issue a recent executive…
Dec 3, 2014 4:05 PM CST
Artesia, New Mexico, sits in the state's southeast corner, about a three-hour drive from El Paso, Texas, and nearly four hours from Albuquerque. Its 11,301 residents' major employers are the…
Dec 1, 2014 4:30 AM CST
Legal Limbo: Immigrant minors from Central America—fleeing violence, poverty and food shortages in their native countries—sleep at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Brownsville, Texas. Federal and state authorities are stretching resources to provide them with food and shelter, while advocates attempt to provide legal aid. Photo by Associated Press.
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A prosecution motion to dismiss most of the 54 charges against a Colorado immigration lawyer on the eve of trial is a transparent effort to hold charges in reserve for…
Nov 26, 2014 3:30 PM CST
Even before President Barack Obama gave a speech Thursday announcing a plan to allow up to 5 million of the country’s 11 million undocumented residents to obtain legal status in…
Nov 21, 2014 6:15 AM CST
An ordinary day at work at an Oklahoma immigration law firm ended at lunchtime Monday for paralegal Jennifer McMinn-Shokat.
Someone came into the Farzaneh Law Firm and warned that a…
Nov 12, 2014 3:51 PM CST
A 67-year-old law graduate and community activist has been found guilty of failing to reveal on U.S. immigration paperwork a 1970 bombings-related military conviction in Israel regarding a fatal supermarket…
Nov 10, 2014 1:20 PM CST
A Jamaican-born man is suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleging that he was held for deportation for three-and-a-half years in Buffalo, New York, even though he is a naturalized U.S.…
Nov 5, 2014 5:30 PM CST