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Michael Maggio leaves the planet.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Photo from website of U.S. District Court (W.D. Mi.). Today, Michael Maggio passed away. The world is all the poorer for it.  In 1987 during my second year of law school, I was obsessing over how to overlap my goal of doing good with my law degree while not being relegated too long by my earnings to living in a group house and eating only rice and beans for dinner; of course, many honorable pursuits do not enable living much more luxuriously than with rice and beans. One evening in my immigration law class that year, in walked highly-skilled and optimistic immigration attorney Michael Maggio (my immigration clinical and law class professor Paul Grussendorf also has been very inspirational), talking to us about determining when immigration matters are ripe for federal court action; his client Margaret Randall, who eventually tried regaining her United States citizenship after having previously renounced it (in 1989, the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).