Public Policy
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Two Tennessee-based environmental groups have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether the federal Clean Water Act applies to pollution introduced into navigable waters through groundwater systems, pointing out that the justices are already considering the same issue in another case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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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.
Mike LaSusa 