Special Report: Immigration Law
New regulations provide relief to foreign students subject to the immigration cap gap and grant an automatic extension of both employment authorization and student status to Oct. 1, provided the H-1B petitioning employer timely files its petition for the student and seeks a change to H-1B status, writes Stewart Rabinowitz. And Eugenia Ponce writes writes about the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption.
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Bargas v. State
(Tex.App. Dist.14 05/13/2008)
The daughter's testimony alone was sufficient to support the convictions for aggravated sexual assault. Houston's 14th Court of Appeals, Nos. 14-06-00795-CR and 14-06-00797-CR
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