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Allowed To Stay: An Exploration Of Dhs New Guidelines To Dismiss Certain Immigration Cases, Jazmin E. De La Cruz Sanchez
Allowed To Stay: An Exploration Of Dhs New Guidelines To Dismiss Certain Immigration Cases, Jazmin E. De La Cruz Sanchez
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
A new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) guideline issued with the intent of reducing case backlogs has led to the dismissal of many immigrants’ legal proceedings. Having their case dismissed has allowed those immigrants to stay within the United States essentially with no legal status. I argue in this paper that these changes have left many in a state that’s been termed liminal legality. Building on previous research that employs this concept, I specifically argue that being in this position affects one’s employment, income, prospects for upward mobility, and future legal standing. Although this new guideline was created to …
Schutte & Polansky: Shifting The Landscape Of False Claims Act Litigation & Compliance, Jessica Tillipman, Teddie Arnold
Schutte & Polansky: Shifting The Landscape Of False Claims Act Litigation & Compliance, Jessica Tillipman, Teddie Arnold
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
The Supreme Court issued two opinions in June 2023 that are set to alter the False Claims Act (“FCA”) landscape for years to come. In United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc., 143 S. Ct. 1391 (2023) the Court elevated the scienter element of the FCA in cases dealing with a defendant’s compliance with law or regulation, whereby no longer can a defendant point to an objective interpretation of an ambiguous law or regulation to the exclusion of a company’s subjective knowledge at the time of claim submission. In United States, ex rel. Polansky v. Exec. Health Res., Inc., …
Bad Faith Dismissals In Chapter 7, Myah Drouin
Bad Faith Dismissals In Chapter 7, Myah Drouin
Bankruptcy Research Library
(Excerpt)
Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) provides a fresh start to the “honest but unfortunate debtor.” Chapter 7 therefore permits a debtor to “discharge their outstanding debts in exchange for liquidating their nonexempt assets and distributing them to their creditors.” Dismissals in chapter 7 are governed by section 707 of the Bankruptcy Code. Section 707(a) governs all chapters of bankruptcy filings and applies when adequate “cause” is shown.
There is currently a circuit split regarding whether a debtor’s lack of good faith constitutes cause for dismissal under section 707(a). Under section 707(a), a case may …
Prosecutorial Nonenforcement And Residual Criminalization, Justin Murray
Prosecutorial Nonenforcement And Residual Criminalization, Justin Murray
Articles & Chapters
In recent years a small but influential group of locally elected prosecutors committed to criminal justice reform have openly refused to enforce various criminal laws—laws prohibiting marijuana possession, sentence enhancements, laws authorizing the death penalty, and much more—because they see those laws as unjust and incompatible with core reform objectives. Condemned by many on the political right for allegedly usurping the legislature’s lawmaking role and praised by many on the left for bypassing dysfunctional state legislatures in favor of local solutions, these prosecutorial nonenforcement policies are commonly said to have the same effect as nullifying, or even repealing, the laws …
Prosecutorial Nonenforcement And Residual Criminalization, Justin Murray
Prosecutorial Nonenforcement And Residual Criminalization, Justin Murray
Articles & Chapters
In recent years a small but influential group of locally elected prosecutors committed to criminal justice reform have openly refused to enforce various criminal laws—laws prohibiting marijuana possession, sentence enhancements, laws authorizing the death penalty, and much more—because they see those laws as unjust and incompatible with core reform objectives. Condemned by many on the political right for allegedly usurping the legislature’s lawmaking role and praised by many on the left for bypassing dysfunctional state legislatures in favor of local solutions, these prosecutorial nonenforcement policies are commonly said to have the same effect as nullifying, or even repealing, the laws …
Professional Insufficiency As A Ground Of Dismissal From A Public Post: “A Study Of The Decisions Of The French Council Of State & The Administrative Appealate Courts”, Musa Shehada
UAEU Law Journal
The aim of this study is to examine the professional insufficiency as a ground of a decision of the French Council of State and the Administrative Appeallate Courts dismissing a public employee a part from the disciplinary measures.
The study indicated that the dismissal of a public employee for professional insufficiency is not restricted to the conduct and behavior exercised by that employee while discharging his job duties or his failure to have good relation with his superiors or colleagues. Due to the dangerous consequences of such dismissal the French lawmaker has provided for a number of guarantees to protect …
Adverse Domination, Statutes Of Limitations And The In Pari Delicto Defense - Application In Cases Involving Claims Of Accounting Malpractice And Corporate Fraud, Laurence A. Steckman Esq., Adam J. Rader Esq.
Adverse Domination, Statutes Of Limitations And The In Pari Delicto Defense - Application In Cases Involving Claims Of Accounting Malpractice And Corporate Fraud, Laurence A. Steckman Esq., Adam J. Rader Esq.
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
He Said, She Said: Plausible Pleadings For Reverse Title Ix Claims, James Bunster
He Said, She Said: Plausible Pleadings For Reverse Title Ix Claims, James Bunster
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Law School News: Faq For 1ls 04-16-2020, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law School News: Faq For 1ls 04-16-2020, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Law School News: F.A.Q. Update: Covid-19 And Rwu Law 03-30-2020, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law School News: F.A.Q. Update: Covid-19 And Rwu Law 03-30-2020, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Standards Of Review In Texas, W. Wendell Hall, Ryan G. Anderson
Standards Of Review In Texas, W. Wendell Hall, Ryan G. Anderson
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract forthcoming
Prosecutorial Discretion And Environmental Crime Redux: Charging Trends, Aggravating Factors, And Individual Outcome Data For 2005-2014, David M. Uhlmann
Prosecutorial Discretion And Environmental Crime Redux: Charging Trends, Aggravating Factors, And Individual Outcome Data For 2005-2014, David M. Uhlmann
Law & Economics Working Papers
In a 2014 article entitled “Prosecutorial Discretion and Environmental Crime,” I presented empirical data developed by student researchers participating in the Environmental Crimes Project at the University of Michigan Law School. My 2014 article reported that 96 percent of defendants investigated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and charged with federal environmental crimes from 2005 through 2010 engaged in conduct that involved at least one of the aggravating factors identified in my previous scholarship, namely significant harm, deceptive or misleading conduct, operating outside the regulatory system, and repetitive violations. On that basis, I concluded that prosecutors charged violations that …
Restating The "Original Source Exception" To The False Claims Act's "Public Disclosure Bar" In Light Of The 2010 Amendments, Joel D. Hesch
Restating The "Original Source Exception" To The False Claims Act's "Public Disclosure Bar" In Light Of The 2010 Amendments, Joel D. Hesch
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Judicial Dismissal In The Interest Of Justice, Valena E. Beety
Judicial Dismissal In The Interest Of Justice, Valena E. Beety
Missouri Law Review
Of the 1.6 million Americans in prison, most inmates are serving sentences for non-violent offenses. Who is responsible? Hyper-incarceration is not simply due to outdated drug laws or stringent sentencing. Courts in the last thirty years have taken a lackadaisical back seat. Prosecutors are failing in their gate-keeping function nationally. Most simple arrests are prosecuted without even evaluating the substance of the case. Police stops can snowball into convictions through our plea system. In short, the criminal justice system provides no systemic accountability for its own results. This Article focuses on this lack of accountability and proposes a conceptual shift, …
The Power Paradox: The Need For Alternative Remedies In Virginia Minority Shareholder Oppression Cases, Stephanie Martinez
The Power Paradox: The Need For Alternative Remedies In Virginia Minority Shareholder Oppression Cases, Stephanie Martinez
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Whistleblowing And Whistleblowers: The Law, The Practice And The Liitations, Ibrahim Sule
Whistleblowing And Whistleblowers: The Law, The Practice And The Liitations, Ibrahim Sule
Ibrahim Sule
The paper seeks to analyze the extent to which whisleblowers are protected
The Jury (Or More Accurately The Judge) Is Still Out For Civil Rights And Employment Cases Post-Iqbal, Suzette M. Malveaux
The Jury (Or More Accurately The Judge) Is Still Out For Civil Rights And Employment Cases Post-Iqbal, Suzette M. Malveaux
Publications
No abstract provided.
Double Jeopardy Violations As "Plain Error" Under Federal Rule Of Criminal Procedure 52(B), Gabriel J. Chin
Double Jeopardy Violations As "Plain Error" Under Federal Rule Of Criminal Procedure 52(B), Gabriel J. Chin
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Plausibility Pleading And Employment Discrimination, Suzette M. Malveaux
Plausibility Pleading And Employment Discrimination, Suzette M. Malveaux
Publications
No abstract provided.
The Second-Class Class Action: How Courts Thwart Wage Rights By Misapplying Class Action Rules, Scott A. Moss, Nantiya Ruan
The Second-Class Class Action: How Courts Thwart Wage Rights By Misapplying Class Action Rules, Scott A. Moss, Nantiya Ruan
Publications
Courts apply to wage rights cases an aggressive scrutiny that not only disadvantages low-wage workers, but is fundamentally incorrect on the law. Rule 23 class actions automatically cover all potential members if the court grants plaintiffs' class certification motion. But for certain employment rights cases--mainly wage claims but also age discrimination and gender equal pay claims--29 U.S. C. § 216(b) allows not class actions but "collective actions" covering just those opting in affirmatively. Yet courts in collective actions assume a gatekeeper role just as they do in Rule 23 class actions, disallowing many actions by requiring a certification motion proving …
A New Look At Dismissal Rates In Federal Civil Cases, Scott Dodson
A New Look At Dismissal Rates In Federal Civil Cases, Scott Dodson
Scott Dodson
In the wake of Twombly and Iqbal, a number of studies have been conducted to determine their effects on dismissal practice in federal civil cases. However, because of coding and collection difficulties, those studies have tended to code whole cases rather than claims--leading to the ambiguous coding category of “mixed” dismissals and to problems in characterizing the nature of the dispute--and have failed to distinguish between legal sufficiency and factual sufficiency, potentially masking important detail about the effects of the pleadings changes.
This paper begins to fill in that detail. I compiled an original dataset of district court opinions and …
An Illusory Right To Appeal: Substantial Constitutional Questions At The New York Court Of Appeals, Meredith R. Miller
An Illusory Right To Appeal: Substantial Constitutional Questions At The New York Court Of Appeals, Meredith R. Miller
Scholarly Works
The jurisdiction of the New York Court of Appeals has long been shrouded in mystery. When the Court dismisses an appeal, it provides a boilerplate, one-sentence decretal entry, which gives the litigants little, if any, meaningful indication of the Court’s reasons for dismissal. In February 2010, however, the world received a rare glimpse into the Court’s jurisdiction when, in Kachalsky v. Cacace, 925 N.E.2d 80 (N.Y. 2010), Judge Robert Smith dissented from the Court’s sua sponte dismissal of the appeal. Judge Smith voted to retain the appeal, arguing that the Court was using the requirement of “substantiality” to invoke discretion …
Clearing Civil Procedure Hurdles In The Quest For Justice, Suzette M. Malveaux
Clearing Civil Procedure Hurdles In The Quest For Justice, Suzette M. Malveaux
Publications
No abstract provided.
Front Loading And Heavy Lifting: How Pre-Dismissal Discovery Can Address The Detrimental Effect Of Iqbal On Civil Rights Cases, Suzette M. Malveaux
Front Loading And Heavy Lifting: How Pre-Dismissal Discovery Can Address The Detrimental Effect Of Iqbal On Civil Rights Cases, Suzette M. Malveaux
Publications
Although the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are trans-substantive, they have a greater detrimental effect on certain substantive claims. In particular, the Supreme Court’s recent interpretation of Rule 8(a)(2)’s pleading requirement and Rule 12(b)(6)’s dismissal criteria - in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal - sets forth a plausibility pleading standard which makes it more difficult for potentially meritorious civil rights claims alleging intentional discrimination to survive dismissal. Such claims are more vulnerable to dismissal because: plaintiffs alleging intentional discrimination often plead facts consistent with both legal and illegal conduct; discriminatory intent is often difficult, if not impossible, …
Re Air Canada And Acpa (Thain), Innis Christie
Re Air Canada And Acpa (Thain), Innis Christie
Innis Christie Collection
The Grievor alleged that the Employer breached the Collective Agreement when it dismissed him after a criminal conviction. The parties requested a "bottom-line decision, without reasons".
This is a consent award. The Grievor is reinstated to employment effective immediately with a Leave of Absence status. The suspension, which occurred before the discharge, is rescinded. While on Leave of Absence the Grievor will not accrue pay or other compensation, but will retain his position on the seniority list. There will be a one year trial period. During this time a number of conditions must be addressed by the Grievor. Jurisdiction is …
Atu, Local 508 V Halifax (Regional Municipality), Innis Christie
Atu, Local 508 V Halifax (Regional Municipality), Innis Christie
Innis Christie Collection
The Grievor was terminated for inappropriate behaviour towards a female passenger. The Grievor did not believe the Employer had just cause and sought reinstatement with full wages and seniority, and the removal of all related documents from his personnel file.
The grievance succeeds in part. Given a previous disciplinary letter regarding similar behaviour, the Grievor should have known that his conduct was not acceptable. Discipline was justified, but dismissal was viewed as excessive in a situation where progressive discipline might be expected. The Grievor is reinstated with several conditions, and with one month suspension without pay. Jurisdiction is retained.
Consent Decree Approving Entry Of Partial Final Decrees Determining The Rights Of The Us As Trustee For The Benefit Of The Nez Perce Tribe & The Nez Perce Tribe To The Use Of Water In The Snake River Basin Within Idaho And The Partial Final Decrees Determining Minimum Stream Flow Water Rights Held By The Idaho Water Resources Board, District Court Of The Fifth Judicial District Of The State Of Idaho In And For The County Of Twin Falls
Consent Decree Approving Entry Of Partial Final Decrees Determining The Rights Of The Us As Trustee For The Benefit Of The Nez Perce Tribe & The Nez Perce Tribe To The Use Of Water In The Snake River Basin Within Idaho And The Partial Final Decrees Determining Minimum Stream Flow Water Rights Held By The Idaho Water Resources Board, District Court Of The Fifth Judicial District Of The State Of Idaho In And For The County Of Twin Falls
Native American Water Rights Settlement Project
Post-settlement court orders/decree. Parties: Nez Perce Tribe, ID, Idaho, US, United States, Non-Indian Water Users listed in Attachment 1. Decree incorporates Special Master’s Term Sheet and partial final decrees for federal reserved water rights held by the US as trustee for the Tribe, for multiple use and for springs or fountains as well as state minimum stream flow water rights held by Idaho Water Resources Board. All Nez Perce claims and US claims for the Tribe which not found in the partial final decrees are dismissed with prejudice. Decrees were entered in compliance with Sec. 42-1411 A, Id. Code. The …
Re Canada Post Corp And Cupw, Innis Christie
Re Canada Post Corp And Cupw, Innis Christie
Innis Christie Collection
The Grievor was dismissed for allegedly exposing himself and for not cooperating with the Employer's request for medical consultations. The Grievor denied the event occurred. The Union states that the dismissal was without just or sufficient cause and requests that the Grievor be fully reinstated and compensated for all lost earnings and benefits, and that all material relating to the matter be removed from his personnel file.
The State Secrets Privilege And Separation Of Powers, Amanda Frost
The State Secrets Privilege And Separation Of Powers, Amanda Frost
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Criminal Law And Procedure, Marla G. Decker, Stephen R. Mccullough
Criminal Law And Procedure, Marla G. Decker, Stephen R. Mccullough
University of Richmond Law Review
This article examines the most significant cases from the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Court of Appeals of Virginia over the past year. The article also outlines some of the most consequential changes to the law enacted by the Virginia General Assembly during the 2005 Session in the field of criminal law and procedure.