Remember way back in August 2018, when we could say, "When is meth not meth? When it’s California meth!" It looks like those halcyon days are gone and California meth is back to being meth. It was always too good to last. The Ninth Circuit withdrew and depublished its ...
Read More"[J]ust as a block of wood is not a pencil if it lacks some kind of pigmented core to write with, a piece of paper is not a notice to appear absent ...
View MorePart II: DACA This past week, the Ninth Circuit upheld a nationwide injunction enjoining the Trump Administration from rescinding DACA for current ...
View MoreWho wakes up in the morning and says to themselves, "How can I make life even more difficult for the most vulnerable populations in the world? How can ...
View MoreIt’s been such an interesting week to be practicing immigration law in California. The Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction ...
View MoreThis week the Ninth Circuit held that a federal conviction under the Travel Act may be a federally controlled substance offense because the statute is ...
View MoreThis week the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) redefined the term "obstruction of justice" and reaffirmed that a conviction for California Penal ...
View MoreTwo cases came down this week from the Ninth Circuit and both held that robbery is categorically not a crime of violence. However, California robbery ...
View MoreThe Board of Immigration Appeals distinguished and seemingly overturned the Supreme Court’s decision in Pereira v. Sessions and methamphetamine ...
View MoreThis week had so many decisions that I decided to divide up the blog into the two truly remarkable cases and the four more mundane but still important ...
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