In our September 22, 2010 blog post, we discussed the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in the case of Flores-Villar v. United States (09-5801), where it agreed to decide the question of whether children born overseas who have one U.S.-citizen parent can obtain U.S. citizenship if the citizen parent had been physically [...]
On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in which it backed Arizona immigration law that seeks to punish employers for knowingly hiring undocumented workers. The case is Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, 09-115. The Court’s decision applies only to business licenses.
Arizona passed the Legal Arizona Workers Act in 2007, allowing the state [...]
On April 18, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an immigration case, where it will decide the following issue:
Whether a lawful permanent resident who was convicted by guilty plea of an offense that renders him deportable and excludable under differently phrased statutory subsections, but who did not depart and reenter the [...]
In our September 22, 2010 blog post, we discussed that the U.S. Supreme Court would hold oral arguments on November 10, 2010, an interesting immigration case, Flores-Villar v. United States (09-5801). The issue presented by Flores-Villar was whether children born overseas who have one U.S.-citizen parent can obtain U.S. citizenship if the citizen [...]
On November 10, 2010, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Flores-Villar v. United States (09-5801), where it must decide whether children born overseas who have one U.S.-citizen parent can obtain U.S. citizenship if the citizen parent had been physically present in the U.S. for a certain [...]
Today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder (No. 09-60), which presented the issue of whether a person convicted under state law for simple drug possession (a federal misdemeanor) has been “convicted” of an “aggravated felony” on the theory that he could have been prosecuted for recidivist [...]
Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a very important case that will affect thousands of immigrants with criminal convictions in either a positive or a negative way (depending on what the court will decide).
Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder (No. 09-60) presented the issue of whether a person convicted under state law for simple drug possession [...]
Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of Padilla v. Kentucky (No. 08-651), in which the Court announced that immigrants must be told by their lawyers whether pleading guilty to a crime could lead to their deportation.
The Court’s ruling came in the case of Jose Padilla, who was born [...]
The Supreme Court will hear an immigration case addressing whether a second drug possession conviction qualifies as an aggravated felony under INA § 101(a)(43)(B) (“drug trafficking crimes”). The specific question before the Court is “Whether a person convicted under state law for simple drug possession (a federal law misdemeanor) has been ‘convicted’ of an ‘aggravated [...]
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