Top of the Ninth: The Travel Act & Lawful Permanent Resident Cancellation
September 28, 2018
This week the Ninth Circuit held that a federal conviction under the Travel Act may be a federally c...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Continuances and Suppression
September 21, 2018
Jeff Sessions issued a decision this week limiting the discretion of Immigration Judges to terminate...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Obstruction of Justice and Reasonable Fear
September 14, 2018
This week the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) redefined the term "obstruction of justice" and rea...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Robbery
September 7, 2018
Two cases came down this week from the Ninth Circuit and both held that robbery is categorically not...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Aug 31, 2018 – Part two
August 31, 2018
This week had so many decisions that I decided to divide up the blog into the two truly remarkable c...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Aug 31, 2018 Part one
August 31, 2018
The Board of Immigration Appeals distinguished and seemingly overturned the Supreme Court’s decisi...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Aug 24, 2018
August 24, 2018
The BIA and the Attorney General did not publish any decisions this week, but the Ninth Circuit made...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Aug 17, 2018
August 17, 2018
We once again had a very busy week in the Ninth. And, the Attorney General issued a decision that wi...
Read MoreTop of the Ninth: Aug 10, 2018 – Part one
August 10, 2018
Summertime and the living is easy – except at the BIA and the Ninth this past week, where a lot of...
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