Julia Preston of the New York Times reports that "Responding to pleas from immigration judges and lawyers who say the nation’s immigration courts are faltering under a crushing caseload, the American Bar Association called Monday for Congress to scrap the...

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty NASA published a notice of a Meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (PDF) in today’s Federal Register (74 Fed. Reg. 6407-6408): SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics a ...

Holocaust insurance claims. The plaintiffs, relatives of victims of the Holocaust, sought to recover insurance proceeds from policies purchased by the victims. The Second Circuit, agreeing with the District Court, held that the state law claims were preempted by the United States foreign policy, w ...

The nursing home roommate from hell. A former San Diego nursing home resident was sentenced to 19 years in jail yesterday for setting a series of fires at two local nursing homes while she was a resident. According to an investigation, Mary Wilson tried to kill her nursing home roommate by setting ...

The Law Library, and all Utah State Courts, will be closed on Monday, February 15, for Presidents' Day. Regular library hours (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) resume on Tuesday, February 16. In 1879, George Washington's birthday - February 22, was deemed a national holiday by the 45th Congress. Today, the third M ...

By John Christoffersen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn’t rule out negligence. The powerful explosion blew apa ...

If you’re thinking about how Citizens United will impact the rest of campaign finance law, take a look at the Republican National Committee’s recent supplemental memo in the party’s case against the Federal Election Commission. The document was filed Feb. 2, 2010.

Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), called for comprehensive and inclusive immigration reform at the opening plenary of the 22nd National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change. To make...

The American Bar Association endorsed a proposal at its winter meeting in Florida to create a separate immigration court system modeled on the federal tax courts. The ABA criticized the current system that the association says is overwhelmed and cannot function effectively since it is under the cont ...

Legislators here in Massachusetts recently passed a bill that would ban drivers from texting messaging while on the road. The bill will be passed along to the Senate. But an article in the Boston Globe points out that enforcing this ban could be tricky. Since the ban would not outlaw dialing phone n ...