The ABA Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA) invites you to join us as experts from the National Immigration Litigation Alliance (NILA) fill us in on the most recent case law impacting your children's immigration cases. NILA will be discussing the most up-to-date cases from the federal courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), what they mean for your clients, how to use or distinguish them, and any foundational immigration cases you can use to bolster your arguments. This webinar is part of an ongoing series.

Class counsel in J.O.P. v. D.H.S., Case No. No. 19-1944 (D. Md.), will also join this webinar to describe the proposed settlement agreement in this certified nationwide class action challenging a Trump administration policy that limited the ability to seek asylum for certain children who arrived in the country alone. In advance of a fairness hearing on the proposed settlement set for November 25, advocates representing class members or prospective class members can take steps now to be informed about the effects of the settlement and to preserve their clients’ rights.

Cases and litigation updates discussed in this webinar will include:

• Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024) (overruling Chevron)
• Bouarfa v. Mayorkas, No. 23-583 (U.S. Supreme Court oral argument scheduled for Oct. 15, 2024) (judicial review over the revocation of visa petitions)
• Matter of R-T-P-, 28 I&N Dec. 828 (BIA 2024) (remedying a claim-processing objection to a defective Notice to Appear)
• Cruz Galicia v. Garland, 106 F. 4th 141 (1st Cir. 2024) (climate refugees)
• U.S. v. Abbott, No. 23-50632 (5th Cir. July 30, 2024) (en banc) (floating river barriers)
• Garcia Perez v. USCIS, No. 2:22-cv-00806 (W.D. Wash) (settlement agreement in national class action challenging certain policies and practices of USCIS and EOIR related to the “Asylum EAD Clock”)
• J.O.P. v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 338 F.R.D. 33, 65 (D. Md. 2020) (certifying class and issuing expanded preliminary injunction)
• Practice Alert: J.O.P. v. DHS Settlement Update (Aug. 28, 2024)
• Matter of M-A-C-O-, 27 I&N Dec. 477 (BIA 2018)

Speakers will include:

• Trina Realmuto, Executive Director, NILA
• Mary Kenney, Deputy Director, NILA
• Kristin Macleod-Ball, Senior Staff Attorney, NILA
• Chris Rickerd, Special Projects Attorney, NILA
• Rebecca Scholtz, Senior Staff Attorney, NIPNLG
• Wendy Wylegala, Senior Director, Legal Strategy, KIND
• Amelia Freidman, CILA Senior Staff Attorney