Top of the Ninth: Robbery is a Crime of Violence After All; California Meth Might be Meth After All; and, there is no De Minimis Exception to the Material Support Bar for Asylum
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 ...
Top of the Ninth: Pereira, Marriage Fraud, and Harboring
"[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 ...
Who 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 ...
It’s been such an interesting week to be practicing immigration law in California. The Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction ...
Top of the Ninth: The Travel Act & Lawful Permanent Resident Cancellation
This week the Ninth Circuit held that a federal conviction under the Travel Act may be a federally controlled substance offense because the statute is ...
Two cases came down this week from the Ninth Circuit and both held that robbery is categorically not a crime of violence. However, California robbery ...
This 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 ...