Practice Advisories

On May 4th, IDP and the Stanford Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic issued an updated practice advisory with model briefing for immigrants and their lawyers fighting criminal bars on eligibility for relief from removal.  In an application for relief from removal, the noncitizen has the burden to prove that he or she is eligible for relief.  If the noncitizen has … Read more »

On April 11, 2012, IDP and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild issued a practice advisory addressing the argument that the U.S. Supreme Court Lafler v. Cooper decision supports the retroactive application of Padilla. The advisory also explains: how the U.S. Supreme Court Missouri v. Frye decision supports the argument that a court warning cannot cure the … Read more »