Month: May 2020

In an application for enforcement of an order of the petitioner compelling the disclosure of certain aptitude test scores to a Union for purposes of collective bargaining, petition is denied where employees have a legitimate and substantial privacy interest in their...

In a petition for review of an order of the BIA affirming an administrative denial of the petitioner's application for cancelation of removal, petition is denied where the BIA reasonably interpreted the stop-time rule, 8 U.S.C. section 1229b(d)(1), as tied to the date...

In an appeal from a judgment of the trial court in an action arising from a claim of deficient tax revenue remittance and concerning the application of Revenue and Taxation Code section 98, judgment is affirmed in part and reversed in part where the court correctly...

In an appeal from a judgment of the district court affirming the administrative denial of plaintiff's applications for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income, judgment is reversed where: 1) the SSA took nearly two years to investigate whether...

In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiffs' claim for adjustment of status under Perez-Gonzalez v. Ashcroft, judgment is affirmed where previous Circuit ruling upholding administrative denial of adjustment controls and has retroactive...

In a petition for review of an order of the BIA upholding the denial of petitioner's applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the CAT, petition is denied where petitioner, a Romanian Gypsy, failed to establish past persecution.

In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiff's complaint alleging that the retroactive application of state statute to breach certain settlement agreements constituted a violation of the Contracts Clause and Puerto Rico law, judgment is...

In an appeal from a judgment of the appellate division reversing a dismissal of a petition to compel disclosure of information under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), judgment is affirmed where an agency may not withhold a record under FOIL solely because some of...

In a petition for review of an order of the BIA affirming the immigration judge's determination that petitioner's conviction for armed robbery was "particularly serious" so as to make him removable, petition is dismissed where petitioner, a native and citizen of...

In an appeal from a judgment of the district court convicting defendant of drunk driving, 18 U.S.C. sections 7 and 13, conviction and sentencing are upheld because a preceding, non-judicial punishment administered by the Navy under 10 U.S.C. section 815 was not...