Border war; in a fight to dismantle the federal immigration service, the agency's best allies could be lawyers who fear what might replace it

Article Abstract:

The bipartisan US Commission on Immigration Reform recommended abolishing the Immigration and Naturalization Service and dividing its duties among other federal government departments, with the Labor Department handling employment-related tasks, the State Department citizenship requests, and a new Bureau for Immigration Enforcement under the aegis of the Justice Department handling border enforcement. Immigration lawyers oppose dismantling the INS and support a Carnegie Endowment report that recommends consolidating immigration responsibilities by raising it to a cabinet-level agency.

Investigations, Emigration and immigration law, Immigration law, United States. Commission on Immigration Reform

---

Not so plain English: in many states, jury instructions are confusing

Article Abstract:

Studies have shown jury instructions to be confusing to jurors, but that simplification leads to greater comprehension. Several states have started simplifying the language of their jury instructions, but there is much resistance and the task is time consuming. It took four years for Michigan to rewrite its jury instructions.

Law, Instructions to juries, Jury instructions, Legal language

---

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Users' rights and the probation service: some opportunities and obstacles. Thinking about the future of probation inspection
• Abstracts: Is it time to give the S corporation a proper burial? The partnership allocation rules of section 704(b): to be or not to be
• Abstracts: Adoption and the Constitution: are adoptive parents really "strangers without rights"? A rape in cyberspace or how an evil clown, a Haitian trickster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society
• Abstracts: Regulatory reform in transition: the telecommunications industry and MFJ regulation. The shape of competition under Title VII of the Energy Policy Act of 1992
• Abstracts: Securities offerings made on the Web are subject to a panoply of federal and state regulations. But is the paper model appropriate for online transactions?

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.