Immigration

* When you use YouTube to bootleg 24, the terrorists win. [WSJ Law Blog] * North Carolina doctors refuse to play executioner; executions temporarily blocked. [Jurist] * Wal-Mart agrees to cough up $33 million for overtime violations. [FindLaw] * This wasn’t the law already?. [AP via Yahoo!] * Seven defendants, including the estate of Kenneth […]

It turns out that Eumi Choi may not be the most controversial Asian-American female in a U.S. Attorney’s Office. From the San Diego Union-Tribune (via TPM): The Bush administration has quietly asked San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, best known for her high-profile prosecutions of politicians and corporate executives, to resign her post, a law […]

* All may not be genetically sound with Suri babies of holoprosencephaly sufferers. (But does genetic perfection really exist?) And once again, wordplay gets us out of the woods of potential litigation by a crazy actor midget. [Overlawyered] * Jack Abramoff has been hitting the books in the prison law library and will represent himself […]

* The feds and the ACLU wrangle over a classified document. Is such use of the grand jury subpoena creative, or improper? [New York Times] * A Swift (& Co.) crackdown: federal raids on meatpacking plants in six states result in over 1,200 arrests on immigration charges. [Associated Press] * MoveOn and those Swift Boat […]

* They may or may not be activist, but they sure aren’t very active. [New York Times via How Appealing] * These people are going to hell… and maybe jail. [CNN] * Does a U.S. court have jurisdiction to stay the execution of Saddam Hussein? [Jurist] * Tie one on…online. [WSJ Law Blog] * Legal […]

Most judges exhibit an excess of caution in their out-of-court comments. While understandable, given judicial ethics and decorum, it’s disappointing (at least to those of us who write about the judiciary). When judges do speak out, the results can be both informative and entertaining. Consider the literary exploits of Judge John H. Wilson, a criminal […]

* I’d rather go naked than eat foie gras. (Wait, is that how it goes? Like Pamela, I’ll find any excuse to show off my glorious rack.) [New York Sun] * Would it have been a crime if the motive had been a little head-start on Thanksgiving preparations? Not everyone can be Rachel Ray. (Thank […]

* While Gawker seems obsessed with the social-climbing aspiration of ex-Skaddenite Melissa Berkelhammer, hopefully we’ll soon find out what makes her any worse than the others. [Page Six via Socialite Rank] * Denmark let the little mermaid stay, and yet they won’t let foreign-born spouses of Danish nationals cross the “Love Bridge.” [Bloomberg]. * Lovin’ […]

* An S.D.N.Y. Bankruptcy Court has given Air America time to pursue the sale of the liberal talk radio network. Interested suitors include Rush, Hannity, and the Monopoly guy. [MSNBC] * “A federal judge Tuesday temporarily barred Hazleton, Pennsylvania, from implementing a law designed to prevent illegal immigrants from living in the town.” [CNN] * […]

Okay, they didn’t quite say that. But they might as well have. A quick update on a story we previously wrote about: An American schoolteacher sentenced to three years’ probation — to be served in Canada — [was] detained at the border, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has confirmed. Malcolm Watson, who was convicted of […]

The Ninth Circuit may be getting slapped around by the Supreme Court lately. (Yeah, what else is new.) But they continue to go about their business. Keep on truckin’, Your Honors! One of you was kind enough to attend a recent Ninth Circuit sitting — not just any old sitting, but the one graced by […]

Okay, so he’s actually a law student (as a number of you nitpickers would surely point out). Anyway, here’s the story: A 26-year-old law school standout was arrested for pretending to be a New Jersey congressman, so he could obtain visas for relatives and others in his native Cameroon, said a federal prosecutor. Njock Eyong […]

* Immigration judges will be subject to annual performance reviews for the first time ever. Now the full extent of their incompetence will be revealed. [New York Times] * Attorneys for the deceased Ken Lay begin the process of posthumously clearing his name. Death has some fringe benefits. [Houston Chronicle] * You don’t need a […]

We never thought that immigration law — yes, immigration law, that form-dominated legal backwater in which underpaid attorneys struggle valiantly against the USCIS’s* mind-blowing incompetence — could spawn a feature film. But check this out: Two years ago, Reed Smith associate Jayne Fleming won a Ninth Circuit appeal on behalf of a woman who had […]