South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Velasquez v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-163-17, 18 pp.) (Agee, J.) No. 16-1669, July 31, 2017; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: A Honduran mother who illegally entered the U.S. with her son after his paternal grandmother had the ...

Tagged with: Murder

Jaquez v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-131-17, 12 pp.) (Gregory, J.) No. 16-1147, June 8, 2017; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: Petitioner’s 2005 criminal proceedings under a first-offender statute for cocaine possession, Va. Code § 18.2-251, constituted a ...

Tagged with: Drug plea

Int’l Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-120-17, 205 pp.) (Gregory, J.) No. 17-1351, May 25, 2017; USDC at Greenbelt, Md. (Chuang, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit upholds the district court’s imposition of a nationwide preliminary ...

Tagged with: injunction

Uribe v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-104-17, 10 pp.) (Keenan, J.) No. 16-1427, May 3, 2017; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: Petitioner’s prior Maryland conviction for the felony offense of third degree burglary qualifies as a crime involving ...

Tagged with: moral turpitude

Alkassab v. Rodriguez (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-121-17, 13 pp.) (Richard Mark Gergel, J.) 2:16-cv-01267; D.S.C. Holding: Although Congress has established procedures for processing asylum applications, 8 U.S.C. § 1158(d)(7) explicitly states that it does not create a private right of ...

Tagged with: CARRP

Castendet-Lewis v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-092-17, 20 pp.) (King, J.) No. 15-2484, April 25, 2017; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: Even though the Department of Homeland Services cancelled a removal order to deport petitioner to Panama, the ...

Tagged with: Burglary

U.S. v. Zhu (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-085-17, 23 pp.) (Per Curiam) No. 15-4517, April 12, 2017; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Ellis, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A Chinese citizen who overstayed his exchange visitor visa and later worked through a broker ...

Tagged with: green card

Cantillano Cruz v. Sessions (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-073-17, 15 pp.) (Keenan, J.) No. 15-2511, March 13, 2017; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: A Honduran citizen’s nuclear family ties to her husband, whom she suspected had been murdered by ...

Tagged with: Threats

Roland v. U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-072-17, 11 pp.) (Thacker, J.) No. 15-2529, March 8, 2017; USDC at Asheville, N.C. (Cogburn, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: An American man who was denied a Form I-130 Petition for ...

Tagged with: denial

Muchira v. Al-Rawaf (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-059-17, 36 pp.) (Traxler, J.) No. 15-2198, March 2, 2017; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Trenga, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Although a Kenyan woman who had worked as a maid for defendants in Saudi Arabia ...

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