Claims And Issues

MOCKING JUSTICE: THREE-YEAR-OLD AS PROP IN IMMIGRATION COURT.

An immigration judge tried to take a plea deal from a three-year-old boy and his five-year-old brother.  He took it.  See Amber Jamieson, "The Heartbreaking Case of the 3-Year-Old Boy in Immigration Court" (BuzzFeedNews online, posted on Thursday, June 21, 2018), available at https://www.buzzfeed.com/amberjamieson/heartbreaking-case-boys-immigration-court?utm_term=.aaAz1pwxX#.vuPBv7rNg.

Immigration judges try to take pleas from three-year-olds a lot.  See Daniel M. Kowalski, "Experts Weigh In On Judge Weil Deposition Controversy (Updated Mar. 8, 2016)," posted on LexisNexis Legal Newsroom Immigration Law, available at https://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/immigration/b/newsheadlines/archive/2016/03/07/experts-weigh-in-on-judge-weil-deposition-controversy.aspx. 

"The  judges were quite shocked and disappointed," said the Honorable Ashley Tabbador, President of the National Association of Immigration Judges.  She was not commenting on taking plea deals from three-year-olds, however.  She was responding to a tweet.

Many people operating within what we call our system of justice try to make justice real.  All lawyers and many people know, however, that our system of justice is anything but a system of justice.  That is not news to them.

But making a mockery of justice, on the other hand, is something else, something different.  Those who participate in making a mockery of our justice system do more to destroy it, by inches and sometimes by miles, than an anarchist or a terrorist would ever have the power to do.

Please Read The Disclaimer.  ©2018 Dennis J. Wall.  All Rights Reserved. **Author's Note:  Due to recent hacking of this blog site we are changing our domain name.  Typepad, the platform provider for this blog, warns that you may lose hyperlink connections.  To allow time to adjust to the change, we wish to announce in advance that although we have no choice ultimately but to change our domain name, we are making the change this weekend and providing you with this notice in advance.  To say again at the bottom of this page what we say at the top of every post on this blog:  If you have reached this blog through a list that carries advertising, your computer may or may not be put at risk either through the list or through the advertising.  I do not accept or authorize any commercial advertising of any kind on any list or post.  Placing commercial advertisements with or near any of my web log posts is prohibited.  Further, I do not recommend any products or services advertised with or near any of my posts or any list of my posts.** 

HACKED: CEASE AND DESIST ALL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT, INCLUDING YOU, wordpress.com.

It has come to my attention that despite running warnings continuously posted at the top of each post, and despite my notification of my copyright in the intellectual property displayed here, the content of this blog is being taken and republished without permission.

All persons and organizations must immediately cease and desist this unlawful appropriation of my copyrighted, intellectual property.

We reserve the right to pursue all rights and remedies against the offenders, wherever they may be located, that we have by law, by statute, or in equity.

Be governed accordingly.  That includes but is not limited to you, wordpress.com, which allows unauthorized contractors to use your platform to appropriate the intellectual property of this blog.

Please Read The Disclaimer.  ©2018 Dennis J. Wall.  All Rights Reserved. **Author's Note, Again at the bottom of this page just as you found it at the top of the page:  If you have reached this blog through a list that carries advertising, your computer may or may not be put at risk either through the list or through the advertising.  I do not accept or authorize any commercial advertising of any kind on any list or post.  Placing commercial advertisements with or near any of my web log posts is prohibited.  Further, I do not recommend any products or services advertised with or near any of my posts or any list of my posts.** 

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CANNOT SIMPLY SEND CHILDREN "OFF INTO THE NIGHT".

Reno v. Flores, 507 U.S. 292, 295, 113 S. Ct. 1439, 1443 (1993) (Scalia, J., for the Court).

Cities across the United States are waking up to find that the Federal Government has sent children off into the night.

Into their cities.  Without telling the children where they were going, and without telling the cities that the children were coming.

Under cover of darkness.  In the night.

People act in the dark because they fear acting in the light.  Whether the Federal Government's fears are justified at the moment, the Federal Government is clearly and secretly sending children off into the night.

In your name, no less.

Please Read The Disclaimer.  ©2018 Dennis J. Wall.  All Rights Reserved.

"They're not MY children." "But they're SOMEBODY'S children, Mr. Potter."

HUD is trying to change the employment contract it has with federal employees, including threats to evict the employees' union from space guaranteed by the contract, space which HUD itself negotiated.  Joe Davidson, "Social Security, HUD Act on Trump's Orders in Move to Emasculate Unions" (Washington Post Online, Friday, June 15, 2018).

The American Federation of Government Employees is the federal employees' union.  They are protesting conditions at one prison where we have a publicly available story.  There are many prisons, but this is a story of one of them.  The prison is receiving 1,000+ immigrant detainees but that is not the reason that the prison workers are protesting.  Rather, the prison workers are protesting because the prisons were subjected to budget cuts in the first place and now the prisons are receiving many immigrant detainees but the workers are not receiving any additional funding, no instructions,  and not one additional medical staff to treat any of the additional inmates.  Paloma Esquivel, "Federal Prison Workers Protest in Victorville, Saying the Transfer of Detainees Creates a Dangerous Situation" (Los Angeles Times Online, posted Friday, June 15, 2018).

It is a good bet that federal workers are also protesting the detention of children in prisons and in tents for that matter.  We do not need a published report to tell us that, in my judgment, nor do we need a published report to draw us a picture of how the current regime is reacting.

It is my understanding that HUD has custody of the immigrant children taken from their parents.  This would help explain why HUD is trying to evict the AFG from space the federal union occupies under the current federal employment contract, an agreement with the federal government that has months to go.

If you believe in the sanctity of contract, this would be a good time to say so.  The claims and issues here keep on coming.

Please Read The Disclaimer.  ©2018 Dennis J. Wall.  All Rights Reserved.

TO FATHERS AND FAMILIES, WHOM IT WILL CONCERN: "IT WAS A SIMPLE DECISION"

How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families

 John Moore/Getty Images.

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear

New York Times Online (posted Saturday, June 16, 2018).

Is this how you want children treated, Fathers?  I have heard that it is a simple decision.  Yes, the answer is simple.  This scene should never happen.  Period.

Please Read The Disclaimer.  Copyright 2018 Dennis J. Wall, Attorney at Law, A Professional Association.  No claim to image or New York Times reporting.  All Rights Reserved.

PRIOR REVIEW OF COURT RULINGS BY INTERESTED PARTIES:  Nice work ....

If you can get it, and you can get it if you try.  Another U.S. Magistrate Judge has authorized interested parties to redact things that the magistrate judge would otherwise say.  The ruling at issue came in a drug patent infringement case in Delaware, Allergan, Inc. v. Taro Pharm. Indus. Ltd., No. 17-663-JFB-SRF, 2018 WL 2753732, at *4 (D. Del. June 6, 2018) (Fallon, USMJ):

In the unlikely event that the parties believe that certain material in this Report and Recommendation should be redacted, the parties should jointly submit a proposed redacted version by no later than June 29, 2018. The court will subsequently issue a publicly available version of its Report and Recommendation.

(Emphasis by the court.)

No word whether the interested parties' redactions will find their way into the report released to the public, or not.  Let's diary for June 29, 2018 and find out.

Please Read The Disclaimer.  ©2018 Dennis J. Wall.  All Rights Reserved.

FIFTY YEARS LATER AND OUR BIG CONCERN IS HURRICANE COVERAGE?

Don't have an experienced insurance coverage lawyer, or just want to check out the information about hurricane coverage?  See Alexander Nicoli, "What to Know About Your Insurance Before Hurricane Damage Strikes" (posted on The Street online, June 4, 2018).

Please Read The Disclaimer.  © 2018 Dennis J. Wall.  All Rights Reserved.