The San Francisco city attorney has won a preliminary injunction requiring an immigration lawyer and his law firm to stop working with a former attorney who is no longer licensed.
A former assistant chief counsel for U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for taking bribes to help immigrants fill out false…
The Virginia Supreme Court was unanimous when it ruled last month that state judges can’t use a writ of error coram vobis to reopen the cases of immigrants who weren’t…
A magistrate judge’s remarks about “institutionalized racism” and the potential for intolerance after the Sept. 11 attacks don’t violate the judicial conduct code, according to the chief judge for the…
Federal officials have urged local authorities to participate in a Secure Communities program that calls for them to check arrestees against a computer database for immigration violations before they are…
May depositions be posted on the Internet or otherwise released to the public? A Florida lawyer who posted robo-signer testimony and an Arizona sheriff targeted in a racial profiling lawsuit…
In oral arguments on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court considered an Arizona law that revokes the licenses of businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
A lawsuit filed by the city of San Francisco claims that a lawyer voluntarily disbarred for high fees and inadequate representation continued to prey on immigration clients by hiring another…
In a first for the nation, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that illegal immigrants who graduate from state high schools can receive lower tuition at California’s public universities and…
A drug dealer seeking to be declared an American citizen appears likely to fail in his Supreme Court argument that gender differences in U.S. immigration law are unconstitutional.
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