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October 07, 2024
Justices Spurn 'Chicken-And-Egg' Green Card Process
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it won't review a Ninth Circuit decision finding that the federal government had wide latitude to consider the availability of employment-based visas before approving green card applications.
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October 04, 2024
Top 5 Supreme Court Cases To Watch This Fall
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear several cases in its October 2024 term that could further refine the new administrative law landscape, establish constitutional rights to gender-affirming care for transgender minors and affect how the federal government regulates water, air and weapons. Here, Law360 looks at five of the most important cases on the Supreme Court's docket so far.
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October 04, 2024
Jury Finds Cognizant Biased Against Non-Indian Workers
A California federal jury found Friday that Cognizant Technologies engaged in a "pattern or practice" of intentional discrimination against a class of non-South Asian and non-Indian employees who were terminated, setting the stage for a second phase that will determine damages against the IT giant.
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October 04, 2024
Harris, If Elected, Expected To Address Root Migration Causes
Vice President Kamala Harris has made clear she will make border security and asylum curbs a prominent part of her immigration agenda, and her experience working on the root causes of migration could bolster efforts to suppress migration.
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October 04, 2024
US Defends Decision Denying H-1B Visa Relocation Request
The U.S. government is urging a California federal judge to throw out claims from a company that sells software to cannabis businesses alleging that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services arbitrarily denied an H-1B visa worker's relocation request, saying the government was required to determine if the work would violate federal law.
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October 04, 2024
EB-5 Partner Accuses NC Atty Of Aiding Investor Coup
A company created to protect an investment project supporting green card applications for Chinese nationals accused a North Carolina attorney in state court of helping shareholders try to place the company into receivership and take control of a $30 million fund.
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October 04, 2024
NY Immigration Boutique Buys Retiring Pro's Firm
New York immigration boutique Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners LLC has bought the decades-old Claudia Slovinsky & Associates PLLC from its retiring owner and founder.
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October 03, 2024
Cognizant Worker Transfers From India Declining, Jury Told
Cognizant Technologies rested its defense Thursday of class action claims that it is biased toward Indian workers after a company executive testified that the number of employee transfers from India to the U.S. has steadily decreased since 2014, bringing to a close live testimony in the racially charged retrial.
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October 03, 2024
UC Regents Sued Over Ban On Undocumented Student Jobs
The University of California has the authority to hire undocumented students to fill campus jobs, but it's refusing to exercise that authority and thus discriminating against thousands of students enrolled at campuses across the state, according to a petition filed in California appellate court.
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October 03, 2024
DHS Won't Turn Over Records About AI Use, Activists Say
Three immigration-focused nonprofits sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, alleging the department has yet to provide information they sought concerning how it uses artificial intelligence in its decision-making over immigration-related issues, including asylum and detention matters.
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October 03, 2024
DHS Vetting Not Enough To Curb Travel Risks, Watchdog Says
Gaps in the federal immigration system's vetting policies are creating a risk that noncitizens who pose a public safety threat are being cleared for domestic air travel, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog reported.
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October 03, 2024
Red States Want H-2A Farmworker Rule Gone For Good
More than a dozen Republican-led states are urging a Georgia federal judge to vacate a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would strengthen protections for foreign farmworkers within the H-2A visa program, arguing that the department clearly overstepped its authorities.
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October 03, 2024
12 Lawyers Who Are The Future Of The Supreme Court Bar
One attorney hasn't lost a single U.S. Supreme Court case she's argued, or even a single justice's vote. One attorney is perhaps "the preeminent SCOTUS advocate." And one may soon become U.S. solicitor general, despite acknowledging there are "judges out there who don't like me." All three are among a dozen lawyers in the vanguard of the Supreme Court bar's next generation, poised to follow in the footsteps of the bar's current icons.
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October 03, 2024
Soldiers Urge DC Circ. Not To Revive DOD Naturalization Rule
Immigrant soldiers urged the D.C. Circuit to affirm a lower court's order that wiped away a Pentagon requirement to serve for one year before becoming eligible for citizenship, saying lawmakers wanted military personnel enlisting during wartime to reap the benefits of citizenship.
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October 02, 2024
Cognizant Exec Cites India's Talent Pool To Explain Workforce
A Cognizant Technologies vice president repeatedly denied in testimony Wednesday that the company is biased toward Indian workers in a class action brought by former employees, and said the company's high percentage of Indian workers with visas is due to the "vast pool of engineering talent" in that country.
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October 02, 2024
Colony Ridge Seeks Quick Appeal In 'Reverse Redlining' Suit
A Texas real estate developer that recently lost a bid to exit a lending discrimination suit brought by the U.S. government and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has moved to begin a Fifth Circuit appeal, arguing the "novelty" of the case's reverse redlining theory warrants immediate appellate review.
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October 02, 2024
ACLU Seeks Info On Feds' Ability To Deport People En Masse
The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday sued U.S. government agencies overseeing the nation's immigration system in New York federal court for records outlining their ability to carry out a mass detention and deportation campaign.
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October 02, 2024
DOL Judge Remands Rejected Request For Foreign Welders
A U.S. Department of Labor judge instructed a certifying officer to reconsider the rejection of a ConocoPhillips subcontractor's request to hire 75 welders for 18 months for a controversial oil-drilling project, saying a request of that magnitude could work because the applicant had not previously used seasonal workers.
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October 02, 2024
USCIS Updates Guidance Evidence Standards For EB-1 Visas
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Wednesday issued new guidance to clarify the types of evidence the agency will weigh in considering applications for EB-1 extraordinary ability visas for individuals at the top of certain fields.
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October 01, 2024
Ex-Cognizant Worker's Emails Show His Prejudice, Jury Told
A former Cognizant Technology IT worker who is among a class of employees alleging the company is biased toward Indians and South Asians was confronted on cross-examination Tuesday during a California federal trial about emails he sent that a company attorney argued show a longstanding "problem" with Indian visa holders.
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October 01, 2024
Mich. Court Says It Can't Force Gov't To Speed Up U-Visas
A Michigan federal judge dismissed a proposed class action from U-visa petitioners who sued over government processing delays, saying federal courts lack power to force the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to process visas in a required time frame.
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October 01, 2024
Texas Loses Bid To Block Residency Over Use Of Benefits
A Texas federal judge has dismissed the state's lawsuit challenging a Biden administration decision to upend a Trump-era rule blocking permanent residency for immigrants who use certain public benefits, finding Texas lacked standing because it didn't show the upending would lead to an increase in immigration or related costs.
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October 01, 2024
Feds Can't Ditch Trimmed Asylum Seekers' Suit Over CBP App
A California federal judge trimmed Monday a proposed class action challenging the federal government's requirement that asylum seekers use a smartphone app to submit applications, tossing an Alien Tort Statute claim and narrowing the scope of injunctive relief sought, but keeping the bulk of the Administrative Procedures Act fight alive.
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October 01, 2024
Rancher Wins Claim That Border Wall Halt Hurt Environment
An Arizona rancher has won his lawsuit claiming the Biden administration violated federal environmental law by failing to analyze how stopping construction on a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and terminating a program that returned migrants to Mexico would impact the area.
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October 01, 2024
Ex-DHS GC Returns To Sheppard Mullin As Nat'l Security Head
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's former general counsel Jonathan Meyer has bounced between the agency and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP since 2016, and now after three years as DHS' top lawyer, the firm said Tuesday he's returning to lead its national security group in D.C.
Expert Analysis
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Think Like A Lawyer: Dance The Legal Standard Two-Step
From rookie brief writers to Chief Justice John Roberts, lawyers should master the legal standard two-step — framing the governing standard at the outset, and clarifying why they meet that standard — which has benefits for both the drafter and reader, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Recent Settlement Shows 'China Initiative' Has Life After Death
Though the U.S. Department of Justice shuttered its controversial China Initiative two years ago, its recent False Claims Act settlement with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation demonstrates that prosecutors are more than willing to civilly pursue research institutions whose employees were previously targeted, say attorneys at Benesch.
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Series
Being A Luthier Makes Me A Better Lawyer
When I’m not working as an appellate lawyer, I spend my spare time building guitars — a craft known as luthiery — which has helped to enhance the discipline, patience and resilience needed to write better briefs, says Rob Carty at Nichols Brar.
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Lead Like 'Ted Lasso' By Embracing Cognitive Diversity
The Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso” aptly illustrates how embracing cognitive diversity can be a winning strategy for teams, providing a useful lesson for law firms, which can benefit significantly from fresh, diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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Biden Policy Gives Employers New Ways To Help Dreamers
A new Biden administration immigration policy makes the process more predictable for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients to seek employment visas, and, given uncertainties surrounding DACA’s future, employers should immediately determine which of their employees may be eligible, says Jennifer Kim at Moore & Van Allen.
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Opinion
H-2 Visas Offer Humane, Economic Solution To Border Crisis
Congress should leverage the H-2 agricultural and temporary worker visa programs to match qualified migrants with employers facing shortages of workers — a nonpolitical solution to a highly divisive humanitarian issue, say Ashley Dees and Jeffrey Joseph at BAL.
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Opinion
Now More Than Ever, Lawyers Must Exhibit Professionalism
As society becomes increasingly fractured and workplace incivility is on the rise, attorneys must champion professionalism and lead by example, demonstrating how lawyers can respectfully disagree without being disagreeable, says Edward Casmere at Norton Rose.
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Series
Serving In The National Guard Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My ongoing military experience as a judge advocate general in the National Guard has shaped me as a person and a lawyer, teaching me the importance of embracing confidence, balance and teamwork in both my Army and civilian roles, says Danielle Aymond at Baker Donelson.
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A Midyear Forecast: Tailwinds Expected For Atty Hourly Rates
Hourly rates for partners, associates and support staff continued to rise in the first half of this year, and this growth shows no signs of slowing for the rest of 2024 and into next year, driven in part by the return of mergers and acquisitions and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, says Chuck Chandler at Valeo Partners.
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Opinion
States Should Loosen Law Firm Ownership Restrictions
Despite growing buzz, normalized nonlawyer ownership of law firms is a distant prospect, so the legal community should focus first on liberalizing state restrictions on attorney and firm purchases of practices, which would bolster succession planning and improve access to justice, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.
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Series
Solving Puzzles Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Tackling daily puzzles — like Wordle, KenKen and Connections — has bolstered my intellectual property litigation practice by helping me to exercise different mental skills, acknowledge minor but important details, and build and reinforce good habits, says Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer.
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Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice
The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.
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In Memoriam: The Modern Administrative State
On June 28, the modern administrative state, where courts deferred to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, died when the U.S. Supreme Court overruled its previous decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council — but it is survived by many cases decided under the Chevron framework, say Joseph Schaeffer and Jessica Deyoe at Babst Calland.
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How High Court Approached Time Limit On Reg Challenges
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Corner Post v. Federal Reserve Board effectively gives new entities their own personal statute of limitations to challenge rules and regulations, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh's concurrence may portend the court's view that those entities do not need to be directly regulated, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.
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How To Clean Up Your Generative AI-Produced Legal Drafts
As law firms increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence tools to produce legal text, attorneys should be on guard for the overuse of cohesive devices in initial drafts, and consider a few editing pointers to clean up AI’s repetitive and choppy outputs, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.