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US Supreme Court issues 2 decisions

Florida Dept. of Revenue v. Piccadilly Cafeterias - bankruptcy Dada v. Mukasey - ruling against the government on the issue of whether the filing of a motion to reopen removal proceedings automatically tolls the period within which an alien must depart the country under an order granting voluntary departure. The ruling below, which found for the government, is reversed and remanded. The Court granted certiorari in three cases: Ashcroft v. Iqbal, whether the Second Circuit erred in allowing a Bivens suit to proceed against FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and various prison officials over alleged detainee discrimination after September 11, 2001. Peake v. Sanders - whether the Federal Circuit erred in finding that a failure of the Department of Veterans? Affairs to give notice to benefits' claimants must be presumed to be prejudicial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Harmful Error on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).