Legal Strategy Archives - Page 4 of 4

July 5, 2012

Last week Benach Collopy brought two long-term cases to happy conclusions. On Thursday, the Immigration Judge removed the conditional nature of our client's residence. Our client began the process of seeking the removal of conditions...

Big win at the Supreme Court

June 26, 2012

In what was surely the most anticipated decision of the Supreme Court's term, Arizona v. United States came down today and not in the way anybody expected. In a 5-3 decision (Justice Kagan took no...

“Good Moral Character” Triumphs In Federal Court

June 7, 2012

Last night, Mr. J.A. slept soundly for the first time in more than four years. On June 5, 2012, Judge James C. Cacheris of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued...

Waiver Victory in Baltimore Immigration Court

May 22, 2012

Today, Immigration Judge Elizabeth Kessler granted our client Mr. LCM adjustment of status and a waiver of inadmissibility due to misrepresentations he made in the 1990s. After 26 years in the U.S., Mr. LCM was...

Benach Collopy and DreamActivist Take up the Child Status Protection Act

May 14, 2012

On Friday, May 11, 2012, Benach Collopy filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief on behalf of DreamActivist with the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Cuellar de Osorio v....

Human Dignity

January 23, 2012

I’ve been thinking a lot about human dignity lately. I am increasingly struck by how many of this country’s so-called leaders treat immigrants – particularly the undocumented ones (a.k.a. “illegal aliens”) – and it occurs...