Add to ORKGOn November 20, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Hernandez-Zavala v. Lynch held that adjudicators deciding whether a noncitizen has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence as defined in 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(E)(i) must apply the circumstance-specific approach to the statute’s domestic relationship requirement. In so doing, the Fourth Circuit carved out an exception to the more protective categorical and modified categorical approaches, which limit the evidence that may be admitted to determine whether a conviction triggers immigration consequences. This Comment argues that the Fourth Circuit erred in extending the circumstance-specific approach to crimes of domestic violence under the Immigration and National...
In Padilla v. Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court held that defense attorneys have a Sixth Amendment du...
In 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of the United States decided a case of an undocumented noncitizen t...
A persistent puzzle in immigration law is how the removal adjudication system should respond to the ...
On November 20, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Hernandez-Zavala v. Lynch ...
On March 31, 2016, in Valenzuela Gallardo v. Lynch, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...
The piece examines the treatment of the Fourth Amendment in immigration courts by surveying its juri...
The United States relies, in part, on certain criminal convictions to determine which noncitizens ar...
This Note addresses whether felony DWI constitutes a crime of violence for purposes of deportation. ...
A noncitizen who has been convicted of a “particularly serious crime” can be deported to a country w...
A conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude (CIMT) can result in harsh immigration penalties ...
On May 14, 2015, in De La Paz v. Coy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that immi...
This Note argues for the passage of criminal procedure rules that would require judges to warn crimi...
The aggravated felony provision of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act was was originally inten...
The Immigration and Nationality Act has caused the issue of unconstitutional vagueness to become mor...
In 1984 the Supreme Court held in INS v. Lopez-Mendoza that the exclusionary rule did not ordinarily...
In Padilla v. Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court held that defense attorneys have a Sixth Amendment du...
In 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of the United States decided a case of an undocumented noncitizen t...
A persistent puzzle in immigration law is how the removal adjudication system should respond to the ...
On November 20, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Hernandez-Zavala v. Lynch ...
On March 31, 2016, in Valenzuela Gallardo v. Lynch, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...
The piece examines the treatment of the Fourth Amendment in immigration courts by surveying its juri...
The United States relies, in part, on certain criminal convictions to determine which noncitizens ar...
This Note addresses whether felony DWI constitutes a crime of violence for purposes of deportation. ...
A noncitizen who has been convicted of a “particularly serious crime” can be deported to a country w...
A conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude (CIMT) can result in harsh immigration penalties ...
On May 14, 2015, in De La Paz v. Coy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that immi...
This Note argues for the passage of criminal procedure rules that would require judges to warn crimi...
The aggravated felony provision of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act was was originally inten...
The Immigration and Nationality Act has caused the issue of unconstitutional vagueness to become mor...
In 1984 the Supreme Court held in INS v. Lopez-Mendoza that the exclusionary rule did not ordinarily...
In Padilla v. Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court held that defense attorneys have a Sixth Amendment du...
In 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of the United States decided a case of an undocumented noncitizen t...
A persistent puzzle in immigration law is how the removal adjudication system should respond to the ...