Foreign Policy and National Security
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A Ninth Circuit appeals panel on Wednesday sent a lawsuit over an asylum officer’s alleged bribery and sexual misconduct back to trial court and ordered a California federal judge to reconsider her previous award of nearly $1 million in attorney fees in light of a 2017 U.S. Supreme Court ruling… Read this piece in its…
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Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that asylum-seekers in expedited immigration removal proceedings who pass “credible fear” interviews and are then given a full deportation hearing cannot be released on bond, overturning a long-standing decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Ninth Circuit on Friday temporarily lifted a California federal court’s order that earlier in the week halted the Trump administration’s policy of pushing asylum-seekers crossing the southwestern border back into Mexico while they await decisions on their immigration cases… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New York federal judge on Thursday halted the Trump administration’s revocation of temporary immigration protections for some 59,000 Haitians living in the U.S. since a 2010 earthquake, saying a group of refugees that sued over the move is likely to win its case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Univar Inc. has agreed to pay $62 million to resolve allegations in the U.S. Court of International Trade that it illegally tried to avoid tens of millions of dollars in anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made saccharin by shipping it through Taiwan, prosecutors announced Tuesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 