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Practice Advisory: Supreme Court Opens Door to Domestic Violence/Aggravated Felony Removal Challenges

IDP and the National Immigration project of the National Lawyers Guild have written a practice advisory on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in United States v.Castleman. The advisory explains why this decision should have no negative impact on immigration law and how it may even support arguments to narrow the “domestic violence” and “aggravated felony” removal grounds.

IDP helps educate Supreme Court of risk to immigrant domestic violence survivors of overbroad reading of a federal criminal law provision

On December 23, 2013, the Immigrant Defense Project joined with other immigrant rights’ organizations in filing an amici curiae brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. Castleman. In that criminal case, the federal government is asking the Court to adopt a broad reading of the “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” predicate crime provision at issue that would include … Read more »