Few lawyers can claim their work directly prompted the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office to admit it misrepresented facts before the U.S. Supreme Court. Students in New York University School of Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic, however, can lay claim to that boast.
After the clinic filed a Freedom of Information Act request and Southern District Judge Jed Rakoff ordered the release of key emails, the solicitor general’s office backed off its claim made in Nken v. Holder, 129 S.Ct. 1749 (2009), that the federal government “by policy and practice” helps facilitate the return of deported immigrants who win their appeal.
