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Due Process
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: “Transporting Padilla to Deportation Proceedings: A Due Process Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel” by Stephen H. Legomsky
"Transporting Padilla to Deportation Proceedings: A Due Process Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel" St. Louis University Public Law Review, 2012 STEPHEN H. LEGOMSKY, Washington University in Saint Louis…
The Right Coast
Senate Bill Would Further Undermine Due Process on Campus
It really is strange for a bill to delegate to a federal agency the power to lower due process protections and standards of proof to be used against private individuals. I have never…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Interesting grousings about former Justice Stevens’ recent grousings
Main October 19, 2011Interesting grousings about former Justice Stevens' recent grousingsThanks to How Appealing, I saw this interesting new essay by LawProf Richard A. Epstein, which is titled, "Uneven Stevens:…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Report Faults Immigration Program for Wrongful Arrests, Detentions Deportations Without Hearings and Counsel, Hints of Racial Profiling, US Citizen Arrests Top Concerns
The majority of people arrested in a fast-growing federal immigration enforcement program are jailed without bond, without access to a lawyer, and without a court hearing, according to a new…
California Trust, Estate & Probate Litigation
Due Process Can Feel Unduly Burdensome: Why does our Court system take so long to do…anything!
One of the hardest things to understand for people who do not have experience with our judicial system is the amount of time it takes to resolve most matters in…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit: Freezing of Islamic Charity’s Assets Unconstitutional
In the continuing legal sage of the now defunct Al Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF-Oregon), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision upholding the federal government's…
International Law Prof Blog
New York Times Article describes legal memo justifying killing of Al-Awlaki
The New York Times has published an article that describes in some detail the legal justifications for the extra-judicial killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric in Yemen. Al-Awlaki is…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Eighth Circuit panel unanimously affirms dismissal of challenges to Arkansas execution protocol
Main October 7, 2011Eighth Circuit panel unanimously affirms dismissal of challenges to Arkansas execution protocolEarlier today, an Eighth Circuit panel handed down an opinion in Williams v. Hobbs, No. 10-1573…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Can jail time slash crime by homeless?”
Main October 2, 2011"Can jail time slash crime by homeless?"The title of this post is the headline of this new front-page piece in The Tennessean, which begins this way: A…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Recommit to Fix ’96
From Michelle Fei: Fifteen Years Too Many: Let’s Fix ’96 and Stop the Deportation Machinery On September 30, 1996, President Clinton signed into effect the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act…