The Ninth Circuit Overturns the BIA’s Ruling Overturning the Supreme Court; the BIA Further Tries to Restrict the Scope of Pereira and Parole ≠ Admission

Weekly Blog for 5.24.19 Part II, – the BIA Decisions, by Merle Kahn, Esq. So, it turns out that the Board of Immigration Appeals cannot actually overrule the U.S. Supreme Court – at least not in the Ninth Circuit.  In Continue reading The Ninth Circuit Overturns the BIA’s Ruling Overturning the Supreme Court; the BIA Further Tries to Restrict the Scope of Pereira and Parole ≠ Admission

The Ninth Circuit Overturns the BIA’s Ruling Overturning the Supreme Court; the BIA Further Tries to Restrict the Scope of Pereira and Parole ≠ Admission – Part I of the Three-Part Blog

Weekly Blog for 5.24.19 Part I by Merle Kahn, Esq. So, it turns out that the Board of Immigration Appeals cannot actually overrule the U.S. Supreme Court – at least not in the Ninth Circuit.  In other words, the Ninth Continue reading The Ninth Circuit Overturns the BIA’s Ruling Overturning the Supreme Court; the BIA Further Tries to Restrict the Scope of Pereira and Parole ≠ Admission – Part I of the Three-Part Blog

THE BIA OVERRULES THE SUPREME COURT – FOR NOW

Weekly Blog for 5.3.19 by Merle D. Kahn, Esq. Part I That headline might be a little hyperbolic, but, in a rare en banc decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) held that the “stop time rule” is triggered by Continue reading THE BIA OVERRULES THE SUPREME COURT – FOR NOW

The Ninth Circuit Lacks Jurisdiction to Review the BIA’s Discretionary Refusal to Certify a Case To the BIA and the District Court of Nevada Holds that a Putative NTA Does Not Confer Jurisdiction on the Immigration Court

While the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) may have found that Pereira is a very limited decision that has nothing to do with anything, the district courts have been finding that the Notices to Appear (NTA) that lack the date Continue reading The Ninth Circuit Lacks Jurisdiction to Review the BIA’s Discretionary Refusal to Certify a Case To the BIA and the District Court of Nevada Holds that a Putative NTA Does Not Confer Jurisdiction on the Immigration Court

CIMT’S ARE NOT UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE; NO HABEAS JURISDICTION OVER UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN; AND, A GOOD PEREIRA ARGUMENT

Weekly Blog for 11.23.18 By Merle D. Kahn, Esq. I am writing this blog from San Jose, California, hundreds of miles from the wildfires, I have been sitting inside for the past week, finding it difficult to breathe, and thinking Continue reading CIMT’S ARE NOT UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE; NO HABEAS JURISDICTION OVER UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN; AND, A GOOD PEREIRA ARGUMENT