Your daily ration of civil justice rationing
With armed “citizen groups” starting to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border and angry crowds protesting the arrival of children into their communities, the ongoing “unaccompanied children immigration” crisis is growing worse. Clearly, this is a tragic worst-case example of… Read More
With President Obama asking Congress for a quick $2 billion to address the growing crisis on the U.S.-Mexican border, it is worth noting that the system failure is not just about immigration policy or border enforcement – it’s… Read More
With Independence Day media attention focused on the “border children” challenging immigration capacity and policy, some are surprised to discover that immigration is a civil, not criminal, legal action. That means that “illegal” immigrants have not broken a… Read More
New York City has created what’s being called “the nation’s first system of public defenders for poor immigrants facing deportation,” according to the Associated Press and other news organizations. Called “The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project,” the… Read More
This is sure to become used as an example of how much the justice system loves its jurors: A state appeals court in Washington state has “revived negligence claims” by the family of an 84-year-old juror who froze… Read More
