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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WILMER GARCIA RAMIREZ, et al., : : Plaintiffs, : Civil Action No.: 18-508 (RC) : v. : Re Document Nos.: 417, 431, 434

MEMORANDUM OPINION JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge As modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once reflected, “It is not possible to go forward while looking back.” Yet that is exactly what Plaintiff Armando Moya *54 Garcia, an alien emigré

Case: 17-10636 Date Filed: 08/19/2020 Page: 1 of 86 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 17-10636 ________________________ Agency No. A072-565-851 PANKAJKUMAR S. PATEL, JYOTSNABEN P. PATEL, NISHANTKUMAR PATEL,

Case: 17-10636 Date Filed: 08/19/2020 Page: 1 of 86 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 17-10636 ________________________ Agency No. A072-565-851 PANKAJKUMAR S. PATEL, JYOTSNABEN P. PATEL, NISHANTKUMAR PATEL,

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION Rutland Unit Docket # 157-3-15 Rdev IN RE: very pa qoman, ome SERGIO MENDEZ LED Petition for Post Conviction Relief ABR é g 2016 VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT RUTLAND FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND ORDER A hearing on the merits took place on November 17, 2015. Petitioner Sergio Mendez was represented by Attorney Dawn Matthews, and he participated by Skype. Attorney John G. D. Waszak represented the Rutland County State’s Attorney. Post trial

The party seeking class certification bears the burden of demonstrating by a preponderance of the evidence that all four requirements of Rule 23(a) and at least one of the three requirements under Rule 23(b) are met. See Dukes , 564 U.S. at 350-51,

JESSE M. FURMAN, United States District Judge: *513TABLE OF CONTENTS BACKGROUND A. History and Purposes of the Census...519 B. The Secretary's Authority Over the Census...521 C. The History of a Citizenship Question on the Census...524 D. Test

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 25-3050 MARGARITO CASTAÑON-NAVA, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, et al., Defendants-Appellants. ____________________ Appeal from the United States Distri

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 25-3050 MARGARITO CASTAÑON-NAVA, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, et al., Defendants-Appellants. ____________________ Appeal from the United States Distri

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 25-3050 MARGARITO CASTAÑON-NAVA, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, et al., Defendants-Appellants. ____________________ Appeal from the United States Distri

Daniel D. Crabtree, United States District Judge This matter comes before the court on defendant Ignacio Hernandez-Mendez's Motion to Dismiss his Indictment (Doc. 18). For reasons explained below, the court denies Mr. Hernandez-Mendez's motion. I. Background The government has charged Mr. Hernandez-Mendez, a Mexican citizen, with one count of illegal reentry under

*1170 Opinion GROVER, J.— I. Introduction The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether a probation condition is unconstitutionally vague when it prohibits an adult convicted of possessing a controlled substance from associating with certain types of p

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge. While fleeing from the Coast Guard aboard a go-fast vessel, the claimant Robert Hovito Van Bommel Duyzing (“Van Bommel”) and his crew tossed approximately $8 million into the Caribbean Sea. The money was recovered by the Coast Guard and the government filed this action seeking to have the currency, along with some additional money found on the crew members’ persons, forfeited to the United States. Van

(Slip Opinion) Military Support for Customs and Border Protection Along the Southern Border Under the Posse Comitatus Act The Department of Defense’s proposed use of military personnel to provide limited assistance with respect to certain Customs and Border Protection inspection and observation functions along the southern border of the United States is permissible under the Posse Comitatus Act and applicable regulations.

MEMORANDUM ** Hector Salvador Mendez-Vargas petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (BIA) denial of his motion to reopen as untimely and for failure to es*734tablish prejudice arising from the alleged ineffective assistance of his original lawyer, Thomas Mix. We grant the petition for review. Mendez-Vargas enter

MOORE, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which WHITE, J., joined. GRIFFIN, J. (pp. 560-68), delivered a separate dissenting opinion. OPINION KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge. Defendant-Appellant Andres RedeMendez appeals his sentence of thirty-six months of imprisonment for reentering the United States after having been removed following a conviction for an aggravated felony in

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge: Miriam Garrido-Morato (“Garrido”) petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). The BIA held that she was ineligible for discretionary hardship relief from deportation because in 1996 she was convicted by her plea of guilty for harboring aliens. The primary issues she raises relate to the retroactivity of the Illeg

634 F.3d 837 (2011) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ederminda ORTIZ-MENDEZ, Defendant-Appellant. No. 09-50849. United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. February 28, 2011. Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Margaret Mary Embry, Asst. U.S. Attys., San Antonio, TX, for U.S. *838 Alex A. Melendez (Court-Appointed), El

*1286FAY, Circuit Judge: Roberto Garza-Mendez, a Mexican citizen who pled guilty to unlawful reentry into the United States by an aggravated felon, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2), appeals the calculation of his sentence. The district judge applied an 8-level increase under U.S.S.G. § 2L1.2(b)(l)(C) (2011) for Garza-Mendez’s Georgia-family-violence-battery

514 F.3d 1035 (2008) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Baltazar MENDEZ, Defendant-Appellant. No. 06-3282. United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. January 24, 2008. *1036 *1037 *1038 Carl F.A. Maughan, Maughan & Maughan, LC, Wichita