Immigration
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Courts
Ninth Circuit Articulates Best Argument Against The Travel Ban Yet
The ruling is on 'hold,' but if SCOTUS wants to knock down the Travel Ban, the Ninth showed them how. -
Government
Trump Is Showing Just How Much Xenophobia You Can Enact Without Changing A Law
He can't make wholesale changes to immigration law, but there's no law against Operation Slowdown. - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Courts
Stealing A Supreme Court Seat Seems To Be Working Out Well For Republicans
Allowing this president to hand-pick his judges removed an important check.
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Courts
Supreme Court Lifts Injunction On Travel Ban
Court votes 7-2 to authorize discrimination while lower courts continue to review the case. -
Government
300 Lawyers Named 'Chicagoans Of The Year'
People are recognizing that lawyers are the first responders to the Trump crisis. -
Government
We Have Scientific Proof That Lawyers Are Incredibly Useful
Hard data shows lawyers can improve client results 12-fold. -
In-House Counsel
Human Resources, General Counsels Prepared To Fight For DACA
Can the business community check Trump? -
Department of Justice
Travel Ban 3.0 Blocked Again By Judge Derrick 'Kiss My Backside' Watson
Citing lack of evidence, Travel Ban 3.0 is temporarily stayed. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Department of Justice
Fake Attorney General Worries About 'Fake' Asylum Seekers
Jeff Sessions also accuses immigration lawyers of "gaming the system." -
Immigration
Lawyers Targeted By White Supremacists
This is what happens when you 'advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy.' -
Supreme Court
Does The Constitution Apply To Immigrants? Supreme Court Will Start To Sort That Out.
Whether the Constitution protects immigrants from Jeff Sessions will be a thing this term. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.28.17
* Federal law enforcement’s crackdown on NCAA coaches has likely brought an end to Rick Pitino’s career. That said, we thought his career was over when we all learned that Louisville hired hookers for recruits so maybe he still has a shot. [ESPN]
* Law firm mergers continue at a record place. Yep, there’s no fundamental market weakness here at all. [Am Law Daily]
* DOJ lawyers face an unpleasant grilling at the Second Circuit. Maybe someday Sessions can disinvite judges he doesn’t want criticizing his unsupported legal theories. [Slate]
* Women losing pregnancies while detained by the administration. I’d say we’re going to look back on this era of immigration policy in horror, but we can probably go ahead and be horrified now. [Huffington Post]
* The USD Alumni Board has weighed in on the Wax/Alexander op-ed. They take a “let’s all come together” approach, which isn’t wrong as much as it seems asymmetric. When one-side throws bombs about cultural superiority, decrying divisiveness puts the onus on the wrong side side to move. [Motions Online]
* The most likely grants from the long conference. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Here’s how you get $4 billion in punitive damages (hint: be in Texas). [Law.com]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.26.17
* Winston & Strawn becomes the latest firm slapped with a gender bias suit. The article is fixated on the fact that the plaintiff went to high school with Obama, but the more fascinating aspect of the story is that it “has not yet been previously reported,” which I think means there’s a time machine involved. [The Recorder]
* As a general rule, if someone contemporaneously points out, “we’re laundering money,” it should raise a red flag. [Law360]
* A new bill would exempt law firms from laws against abusive debt collection practices because some people don’t think the legal profession is objectionable enough and maybe a policy carveout allowing them to send Rocko out to crack client heads might just do the trick. [Detroit News]
* It’s a shotgun wedding! If you replace “shotgun” with “risk that a material witness would be compelled to testify against me.” [Lowering the Bar]
* BarBri seems to have successfully escaped the $50 million antitrust lawsuit it faced. [Law.com]
* Velcro has a music video urging people to call their product “hook-and-loop” to protect their trademark. Because if you want to reverse decades of informal association, try to convince people to use the stupidest name ever. [Velcro]
* Could a Vulcan adopt a human child? Sure, but who wants to be a Vulcan? Tell me if I can ever realize my dream of being adopted by Zaphod Beeblebrox. [Legal Geeks]
* Here’s a disturbing video of a couple of ICE agents harassing an American citizen. Oregon lawmakers are calling for a federal investigation. When I recently spoke to former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, she explained how her office put in tremendous effort to ensure that immigration enforcement agents on the ground understood their legal limits. It would seem this administration is less focused on that. [ACLU of Oregon]
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Department of Justice, Immigration, Justice
Travel Ban 3.0: We've Finally Achieved A Patina Of Legalism To Cover The Bigotry
Can you put the bigot back in the bottle? -
Justice, Supreme Court
Is Mootness How The Travel Ban Dies?
New regulations could render the travel ban moot long before we get to its merits. -
Immigration
Knock, Knock -- Room Service? No, ICE.
Wake up, America. Pushing immigrants further into the shadows isn't going to help anyone. -
Crime
At Motel 6, We'll Keep The Light On For You (And Then Maybe We'll Call The Cops On You)
Staying at a Motel 6 can land you in jail. Which might be an improvement. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.14.17
* So now we’re going to save DACA? Honestly, watching a White House with no coherent vision is exhausting. [Los Angeles Times]
* Trump’s FEC nominee raises eyebrows because his Twitter feed includes linking to articles explaining that “Protestantism is poison.” That’s an unexpected wrinkle in 2017, but then again… nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! [National Law Journal]
* Do the Big 4 accounting firms pose a threat to Biglaw? Um, yes! [Am Law Daily]
* Squire Patton Boggs isn’t entitled to squirepattonboggs.net according to an international arbitration panel. Put aside the merits of this decision and spend a few minutes cruising squirepattonboggs.net. It’s kind of hilarious. [Asian Lawyer]
* A new online program promises to help women get out of Biglaw. [Law.com]
* Yesterday, jurors heard that employees of payday lender AMG Services were fed weather reports so they could make small talk without revealing that they weren’t really on the tribal lands that offered them legal cover. You’ve got to appreciate how thorough they were. [Law360]
* Attorney sentenced for orchestrating a scheme that swindled NFL players. [Chicago Tribune]
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Department of Justice, Immigration, Justice
State Attorneys General Continue To Fight Trump At Every Turn
These guys are bringing their 2L Admin Law casebooks to work now. -
Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
That Awkward Moment When Your Twin Brother Is A U.S. Citizen At Birth, But You're Not
This family's situation should be on a law school final exam.