New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Mariko Hirose | December 7, 2023
When a U.S. citizen marries a noncitizen, the foreign spouse does not automatically obtain the right to live in the United States permanently. Instead, if the spouse does not have permanent status already, the U.S. citizen must submit a petition and accede to the process of proving the marital relationship to USCIS. Should the consular officer's fateful decision to issue a spousal visa be subject to any degree of judicial oversight? In a petition for certiorari before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Solicitor General is urging the court to take up the question and answer it in the negative to the detriment of millions of U.S. citizens.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Mariko Hirose | October 19, 2023
The immigration "crisis" narrative of recent years misses an important point: that the instinct to ban refugees has forced the current predicament in the first place. Further, this reactionary path has weakened the federal government's capacity to respond constructively to global displacement.
New York Law Journal | Profile
By Andrew Denney | September 21, 2023
A handful of brave attorneys and a Law Journal reporter faced off against the young chess master at one of the firm's regular fireside chats. Their defeats were swift.
By Jimmy Hoover | September 7, 2023
Among the courts that have opined on cellphone searches is U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York, who held that "phone searches at the border generally require warrants outside exigent circumstances."
By Emily Saul | August 21, 2023
Owolabi Salis was disbarred last year following his acquittal on charges relating to filing over 1,000 fraudulent immigration applications.
By Brian Lee | August 21, 2023
Backers said the measure was needed to break a "cycle of violence and abuse" that often lands persons in the criminal justice system,
By Brian Lee | August 8, 2023
The Northern District of New York's top federal prosecutor said AI wasn't a major source of litigation yet, but Is being closely monitored.
By Brian Lee | July 21, 2023
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank granted the counties' and town of Riverhead's petitions to change venues and sever the cases, uprooting the city's one-size-fits-all approach.
By Brian Lee | July 14, 2023
Lawyers argued that New York County is the proper venue "because it is the epicenter of the asylum seeker crisis."
By Brian Lee | May 18, 2023
The Adams administration had made arrangements with certain hotels in Rockland and Orange Counties, but both jurisdictions reacted quickly by issuing executive orders, on May 6 and May 8, respectively, seeking to prevent the migrants and asylum seekers from entering.
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