Top of the Ninth: Isomer Explanations for Lorenzo v. Sessions, 902 F.3d 930 (9th Cir. 2018)
November 19, 2018
This week we have a guest blog by Sean Patrick McGinley a law student at Boston College. Sean Patric...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: CIMT Vagueness and Minors, and Pereira
November 16, 2018
I am writing this blog from San Jose, California, hundreds of miles from the wildfires, I have been ...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Part One: 288c and PSC
November 9, 2018
Part I: 288c and PSC After being very quiet for a few weeks and issuing no opinions on certain d...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Part two: DACA
November 9, 2018
This past week, the Ninth Circuit upheld a nationwide injunction enjoining the Trump Administration ...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Convention Against Torture (CAT) and 245k
November 2, 2018
This week I am blogging from the AILA California Chapters’ Conference in San Diego. I am so happy ...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Critique of the profession by Rachel Bloom
October 26, 2018
This week was very quiet in immigration law. Nothing came down from the Ninth Circuit, the Board of ...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: UACs and Persecutor bar
October 19, 2018
Who wakes up in the morning and says to themselves, "How can I make life even more difficult for the...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Mandatory Detention
October 12, 2018
This week after a very busy week at work, and I was quite pleasantly surprised that no immigration c...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Injunctions and 18.5
October 5, 2018
It’s been such an interesting week to be practicing immigration law in California. The Northern Di...
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