By Josefa Velasquez | September 18, 2017
The Cuomo administration says it is working on a plan to expand a legal defense fund to help immigrants fight deportation at a hearing Monday at the state Court of Appeals.
By David Handschuh, Photographer | September 18, 2017
More than 50 new American citizens were sworn in during the Constitution Day ceremony at the Eastern District courthouse in Brooklyn on Monday.
By Josefa Velasquez | September 15, 2017
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order Friday banning state agencies and New York state police from inquiring about individuals' immigration status.
By Cogan Schneier | September 7, 2017
The court upheld a district court ruling that said grandparents of U.S. citizens and other family members of U.S. residents are exempt from President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order.
By Jason Grant | September 6, 2017
A defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel when his lawyer told him that he "could be" deported—not that he definitely would be deported—as a result of his guilty plea for attempted robbery, a divided state appeals court has ruled.
By Cogan Schneier | September 5, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security will phase out the program, but will not cancel any existing work permits.
By Josefa Velasquez | September 5, 2017
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman vowed to sue the Trump administration over its plan to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that shielded young immigrants from deportation and allowed them to receive work permits.
By C. Ryan Barber and Cheryl Miller | August 29, 2017
"He's a litigator by nature, and a fighter," a former law partner of Sylvester Turner, the Houston mayor, once recalled. Turner, a Harvard Law School graduate who previously worked at then-Fulbright & Jaworski, before co-founding his own firm, is the public face now of Houston's response to Hurricane Harvey. His resiliency is being tested in ways his law partner couldn't have envisioned. Catastrophic flooding from the storm has crippled courts and shuttered law firms. Here are highlights from Turner's ties to the law.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | August 16, 2017
Indictment Related to Fraudulent Marriage Denied Dismissal, Transfer on Venue Grounds
By Shibani Gokhale | August 14, 2017
Discussion of how lawyers can help solve workplace issues for immigrants and religious minorities was the focus of two panels at the ABA Annual Meeting on Friday, while Sunday saw experts connect the dots between state restrictions on women's rights and lack of access to programs benefiting low-income women and children.
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