The U.S. Department of Justice‘s Office of Special Counsel recently nabbed the department’s largest civil penalty ever for an Immigration and Nationality Act bias claim, a move attorneys say may have been bolstered by access to E-Verify statistics that has led to more enforcement from the unit. The DOJ announced […]
After serving on immigration committees and in government liaison roles for two decades, in 2014, Loughran was selected by Best Lawyers as Austin Immigration Law “Lawyer of the Year” and he has been regularly designated as a Texas “Super Lawyer” by Texas Monthly and one of the Best Lawyers in […]
A federal appeals court said Wednesday it has set a date to hear an expedited appeal of a lower court order that put President Obama’s deportation relief programs on hold. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on July 10 in New Orleans in the Obama administration’s […]
Obama Immigration Update: Justice Surrenders On Injunction, Focuses On 5th Circuit Fight
28 May
by Foster, on News
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has begrudgingly accepted the 5th Court’s Decision to continue the delay of President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration. The Department had the option of seeking an emergency stay from the Supreme Court, but legal experts say that it had a miniscule chance of being […]