Top of the Ninth: Isomer Explanations for Lorenzo v. Sessions, 902 F.3d 930 (9th Cir. 2018)

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...

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Top of the Ninth: CIMT Vagueness and Minors, and Pereira

Top 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 ...

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Top of the Ninth: Part One: 288c and PSC

Top 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...

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Top of the Ninth: Part two: DACA

Top of the Ninth: Part two: DACA

November 9, 2018

This past week, the Ninth Circuit upheld a nationwide injunction enjoining the Trump Administration ...

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Top of the Ninth: Convention Against Torture (CAT) and 245k

Top 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 ...

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Top of the Ninth: Critique of the profession by Rachel Bloom

Top 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 ...

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Top of the Ninth: UACs and Persecutor bar

Top 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...

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Top of the Ninth: Mandatory Detention

Top 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...

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Top of the Ninth: Injunctions and 18.5

Top 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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