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U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens retired in June, but he left behind freshly minted decisions that will extend his legacy in day-to-day court cases for years to come. ...two decisions that got fewer headlines when they were announced are also producing a broad ripple effect in courtrooms, and both were written by Stevens: ...
"A 61-year-old Jamaican man who spent three decades working in New York is likely to die of medical neglect in a Louisiana immigration detention center unless the United Nations intervenes, says an urgent petition that his advocates plan to submit to the international organization on Friday. ...On Thursday afternoon, his advocates at the...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that an immigrant appealing the denial of an attempt to reopen a deportation order has the right to a court hearing to determine whether he should be detained while his case is pending.
The court found that Amadou Diouf, a Senegalese immigrant who was detained for four years while...
Human Rights Group Calls on Congress to Act Immediately
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld, by a 5-3 vote, an Arizona statute which creates state-level penalties, including the “business death penalty,” for companies which are found to have employed undocumented immigrants. The decision permits such drastic penalties that it is sure...
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