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Supreme Court Reviewing Appeals Court Rulings on Forced Abortion Asylum
The Supreme Court is reviewing decisions made at the appeals court level about forced abortion asylum for victims of the one-child policy in China. The dispute is over whether partners of the women who are victimized can qualify for asylum and interpreting the U...

Supreme Court Denies China Mans Asylum Request in Forced Abortion Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an asylum request from the husband of a woman who had been the victim of a forced abortion in China. The man hoped to join his wife in the United States to flee persecution from the oppressive family planning policy that allows couples just one child.

CA1: First screws up another Albanian asylum claim
Gjiknuri v. Gonzales, No. 07-1328 (unpublished) denies the asylum claims of Albanians. Once again the First does something which is really bad. They rely on an apparent form of stare decisis to conclude that asylum claims from some countries are...

CA1: First abdicates its role in reviewing immigration cases
Rabbat v. Mukasey, No. 08-1330 (9/25/08) (unpublished). The petitioner is a Syrian Christian. The First says that because the asylum claim was filed late, it lacks jurisdiction to review it...

Abortion and the Supreme Court: One Depressing Possibility
I got an e-mail from RH Reality Check today plugging a series of posts about abortion, framed with the title: “The Supreme Court Hangs In The Balance.” I’d like to offer the competing opinion that the Supreme Court has already been lost...

Zhao v. Mukasey (9th Cir. - Aug. 26, 2008)
Some cases are fairly simple.You're a married couple from China. You are practitioners of Falun Gong. You've got a good (and credible) story of religious persecution by Chinese authorities...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Ladder Accident Injury Claims
Were you or a loved one injured in a ladder accident?

AIG Settles Injury Claim
for $18 Million

Train Crashes
alleging death, injury, exposure to deadly chemicals and forced evacuations.

Failure-to-accommodate claim yields $1.82M award
$1.82 Million Awarded in Employment Lawsuit

Celebrity Chef
John Burton Race ordered to pay wife $7.2 million divorce settlement.

Chinese Drywall Lawsuit Filed Against Nevada Home Builders
Chinese Drywall Lawsuit Filed Against Nevada Home Builders

FDA Issues Update on Safety Review Orlistat
Orlistat FDA Issues Update on Safety Review