EOIR is posting this ad for "many vacancies" in unspecified locations. Open & closing dates: 08/30/2024 to 09/13/2024 Salary: $156,924 - $204,000 per year
State Department, Aug. 27, 2024 - Annual Limit Reached in the EB-1 Category State Department, Aug. 29, 2024 - Annual Limit Reached in the EB-4 Category
David L. Cleveland, Aug. 29, 2024 "In response to a FOIA request and lawsuit by the Louise Trauma Center, USCIS released 70 pages of Ecuador country conditions, given to asylum officers. This article...
Dominguez Ojeda v. Garland "The only question before us is whether the IJ committed legal error by failing to exercise discretion and, instead, automatically refusing to consider Dominguez Ojeda’s...
OFLC, Aug. 28, 2024 " The Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification Announces Delay in Transition Schedule for Implementing the H-2A Application and Job Order Associated...
Cisneros v. Elder
"The CGIA provides that sovereign immunity is waived for injuries that result from the operation of a jail. The sheriff argues that the conduct alleged in this case — that he refused to release plaintiff (after plaintiff posted bond) to comply with a hold placed on plaintiff by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — does not come within the definition of operation of a jail. We disagree. ... [T]here is no dispute that plaintiff was being held pending trial and had not been convicted of the crime for which he was being held. Plaintiff alleges he suffered injury from being detained unlawfully for almost four months after he had posted bond and was entitled to be released. ... [P]laintiff alleges that he should not have been “kept” in jail after posting bond, which raises a question of whether the sheriff properly exercised his duty by “safely detain[ing] every person duly committed thereto.” Id. We hold that a sheriff’s determination not to release an inmate after the inmate has properly posted bond lies at the heart of the sheriff’s duties and is related to the purpose and operation of a jail. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s ruling that the sheriff in this case is not immune from suit under section 24-10-106(1)(b)."
[Hats off to my good friend Stephen G. Masciocchi!]