Appellate Law

Supreme Court Declines to Review Asylum Claim of Chinese Man Whose Wife Had Forced Abortion
Associated Press: Court turns down Chinese man's asylum claim: WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a Chinese man who sought asylum in the United States because his wife was forced to have an abortion under...

The Asylum Primer
The AILA Asylum Primer by Regina Germain, a veteran asylum attorney and former Senior Legal Counselor of the Washington Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is one of the Law Library's latest print acquisitions...

Monheim on Human Trafficking & Asylum
Jenny Monheim (Luxembourg University) has posted Human Trafficking and the Effectiveness of Asylum Policies on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We investigate the effects of restrictive asylum policies on the number and group composition of asylum seekers...

Jamaican Lesbian Denied Asylum
A Federal appeals court in Philadelphia has denied the asylum claims of Jamaican lesbian Marcia Forrester, despite widespread violence and persecution of lesbians in Jamaica. The court wrote that "notwithstanding Forrester's obvious masculinity and lesbian status, she failed to offer any evidence that she was tortured or arrested on any of her four visits to Jamaica...

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...

'Inhumane and oppressive': the final verdict on Britain's asylum policy
'Inhumane and oppressive': the final verdict on Britain's asylum policy"The most comprehensive examination of the UK's asylum system ever conducted has found it "marred by inhumanity" and "not yet fit for purpose"...

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Failure-to-accommodate claim yields $1.82M award
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Recovery Claim
Florida Insurance Guarantee Association agrees to pay $14 million settlement to Home Solutions of America for construction services.