Legal News

High Court defers decision on Christian radio ad case
Christian Institute: The High Court has deferred a decision on whether a watchdog was right to ban an advert that asked Christians to report experiences of workplace marginalisation...

Boards Denial of Request to Restore Residence and Garage Arbitrary and Capricious
An appeals court held that the denial by the zoning board of appeals of petitioner?s application to restore more than 50% of the floor area of a residence and semi-detached garage was arbitrary and capricious...

NEW BLOG: NEWS FROM THE IMMIGRATION COURTS
My colleague Jack Richbourg has started a new blog that covers cases coming down from the Board of Immigration Appeals, Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court. His first post covers the case Matter of X-M-C in which the Board of Immigration Appeals addresses the question of whether an Immigration Judge can rule an asylum case is frivolous without actually hearing it...

Immigration Appeals Part 1
Canada immigration appeals are complex. In this post, I will address appeals through the Immigration Appeal Division, an administrative body that acts somewhat like a court, but is much faster and less formalized than a court proceeding...

New Canada Immigration Forum
We’ve just launched our new Canada immigration forum! We cover all aspects of temporary residence, permanent residence, inadmissibility, along with general discussion of immigration matters of interest to you...

Appeals court halts deportation of 7 immigrants
A federal appeals court has put the Obama administration's new immigration directive to the test by halting the deportation of seven immigrants alleged to be in the country illegally...

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

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

Immigration Related Employment Discrimination & Unfair Labor Practices
What to do about employers who discriminate because of national origin

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

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

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

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Citizenship and Immigration Canada
allegedly overcharged for immigration application fees.

Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Division of Immigration Health Services
allegedly drugged deported immigrants with sedatives.

Immigration Fees
Nationwide Class Action Gets Green Light

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
alleging government agencies and officials violated immigrant workers' constitutional rights.

Fayette County School Board
faces sex abuse class action lawsuit