August 13, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down 2024’s biggest immigration rulings so far, including greenlighting a two-step removal notice scheme, barring U.S. citizens from challenging spousal visa denials and opening up hardship determinations to judicial review. Here, Law360 looks back at the year's four most consequential court decisions for immigration.
July 05, 2024
In a U.S. Supreme Court term teeming with serious showdowns, the august air at oral arguments filled with laughter after an attorney mentioned her plastic surgeon and a justice seemed to diss his colleagues, to cite just two of the term's mirthful moments. Here, we look at the funniest moments of the term.
March 19, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a Trinidad and Tobago native's bid to cancel his removal based on the hardship it would cause his U.S. citizen son, ruling that circuit courts do have authority to review mixed questions of law and fact.
November 28, 2023
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday suggested the Biden administration is relitigating an argument the high court rejected three years ago when it ruled that the legal standards applied to the facts of a case can be appealed.
November 22, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court returns Monday from a long holiday weekend to hear arguments over the proper standard to apply when sentencing a repeat felony offender under the Armed Career Criminal Act and the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house courts system.
September 06, 2023
Former immigration judges backed a Trinidad and Tobago native's U.S. Supreme Court plea to overturn a Third Circuit decision holding that a denial of his bid for deportation relief based on exceptional hardship wasn't reviewable, saying federal court review could avoid inconsistencies in the hardship standard's application.
August 30, 2023
A Trinidad and Tobago native asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Third Circuit decision holding that a denial of his bid for deportation relief based on exceptional hardship isn't reviewable, saying a recent high court decision in another case said otherwise.
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review if Board of Immigration Appeals decisions denying removal cancelation for exceptional hardship are reviewable, and will also hear three consolidated cases on what constitutes sufficient immigration notices.