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Immigration Reform Preliminary Injunctions

Immigration Reform is a term commonly used to refer to comprehensive efforts to address limitations, deficiencies and inequalities within a country's immigration policies and systems. In the United States,... more +
Immigration Reform is a term commonly used to refer to comprehensive efforts to address limitations, deficiencies and inequalities within a country's immigration policies and systems. In the United States, the term is often used to describe legislative efforts to remedy problems associated with illegal immigration, including protecting undocumented workers, expanding citizenship eligibility, and strengthening border security.   less -
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Supreme Court Clears Department of Homeland Security’s Public Charge Rule to Go Forward Nationwide; Department of State Follows...

In a 5–4 decision on February 21, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Wolf v. Cook County, Illinois (No. 19A905) in favor of staying an Illinois district court’s injunction blocking the Trump...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Lifts Injunction, allowing DHS and USCIS to Implement Public Charge Final Rule

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Supreme Court’s decision clears the path for DHS/USCIS to implement its Public Charge final rule, which requires employers and employees to disclose receipt of certain public benefits in...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Allows DHS to Implement Public Charge Rule

On January 27, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to lift the last remaining nationwide injunction blocking implementing of its public charge rule. The rule, initially published by the...more

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Trump Administration, Allows Implementation of Public Charge Rule

On January 27, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 in favor of allowing the Trump administration to begin applying its revised public charge rule. The rule’s implementation was blocked in October 2019 by...more

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Can California Revive Its Immigrant Worker Protection Act?

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Seyfarth Synopsis: California enacted its Immigrant Worker Protection Act (IWPA) to make it more difficult for federal immigration enforcement agents to access nonpublic areas of employer worksites and private employee...more

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USCIS to Resume Accepting Applications to Renew DACA

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On January 13, 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...more

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Beltway Buzz - September, 2017 #2

Congress returned this week from its August recess to begin a legislative period of 11 straight weeks in which the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, or both chambers will be in session—all the way up to the...more

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How the Supreme Court's Travel Ban Order Will Impact Businesses

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The United States Supreme Court recently stayed portions of two (2) U.S. Circuit Court opinions and allowed parts of President Trump’s travel ban to go into effect. Foreign nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,...more

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Immigration Alert: Travel Ban Partially Reinstated

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On January 27, 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order banning visa issuance and travel to the United States for all refugees and travelers from seven countries (Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) for...more

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Supreme Court Partially Revives President’s Travel Ban, But Imposes Limitations

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The U.S. Supreme Court announced this week that portions of the controversial Executive Order No. 13780, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States” (known informally as the “travel ban”),...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Travel Ban

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On June 26, 2017 the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued a mixed decision in the “Travel Ban” litigation, relating to Presidential Executive Order 13780 (“EO”). As explained in more detail below, the SCOTUS decision gave a...more

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Court of Appeals Blocks Travel Ban Executive Order

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On May 25, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court’s preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of the “travel ban” provision of President Trump’s March 6, 2017...more

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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Second Travel Ban - Decision Sets Up Inevitable Date At Supreme Court

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In a 10-3 decision, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the nationwide injunction that had blocked President Trump’s second executive order banning certain travel into the country from taking effect. The Court...more

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President Trump’s Sanctuary City Executive Order blocked by California Judge

In the latest blow to President Trump’s immigration agenda, on Tuesday a federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration’s threat to withhold federal funds from so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions.” U.S. District...more

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President Trump Signs Second “Travel Ban” Executive Order; Hawaii and Maryland Federal Courts Block Ban Temporarily; DOJ Expected...

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On March 6, 2017, President Donald Trump signed a new “Travel Ban” Executive Order with an effective date of March 16, 2017. The order revoked a previous executive order signed on January 27, 2017, which was blocked by the...more

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Déjà Vu All Over Again? Federal Court Blocks Trump’s Second Travel Ban

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In the most stinging legal rebuke yet to President Trump’s efforts to bar certain immigrants from reaching the country’s shores, a federal judge in Hawaii late Wednesday ordered the president’s second travel ban be...more

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Opposition to Travel Ban EO Includes Tech Firms and Others

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After oral arguments on February 9th, the Ninth Circuit denied the government’s request to reinstate the travel ban EO. State of Washington v. Trump. More than 135,000 people listened to the Ninth Circuit oral argument,...more

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Halt on Trump Administration's Travel Ban

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump administration’s motion to reinstate the travel ban. Late on Thursday, February 9, the Ninth Circuit panel voted to...more

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Ninth Circuit Denies Government’s Motion to Stay District Court’s Order Blocking Travel Ban

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In a unanimous opinion, a three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the stay of President Trump’s travel ban. The Court found in favor of the State of Washington on all of its arguments and held that the...more

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Trump's Immigration Executive Order - Are We Back to Where We Started?

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If you are confused about what is happening with President Donald Trump’s immigration Executive Order (Order), then you are not alone. PAST – What exactly is the Order? Trump signed the Order on January 27, 2017,...more

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Sheppard Mullin Travel Advisory and Immigration Update

The last two weeks in Washington have been very eventful in the immigration field. In light of the travel restrictions recently imposed by the President’s executive order, we are now advising our U.S. clients who have...more

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The Supreme Court - June 2016 #6

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in five cases on June 23, 2016: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, No. 14-981: Petitioner Abigail Fisher applied for admission to the University of Texas at...more

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Immigration Showdown: Defeat for the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action Policies

On Thursday, June 23, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States reached a 4 – 4 tie on issues related to the validity of the Obama administration’s contested immigration programs, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans...more

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Breaking News: SCOTUS to Hear DOJ’s Appeal of the Fifth Circuit’s Decision in State of Texas v. U.S.

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear the U.S. Department of Justice’s appeal of the Fifth Circuit’s 2-1 ruling upholding the preliminary injunction issued against President Barack Obama’s executive...more

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Multiple Legal Briefs Defending The President’s Executive Actions Filed

On Monday, multiple amicus briefs were filed with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of State of Texas v. United States. As way of background, a coalition of 26 states, including the State of Texas, sued the U.S....more

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