Immigration · Case note
Unreasonable by When? Mandamus and the Silent Green-Card File
When an adjudication goes quiet for years, the district court is not a suggestion box. But the question the court asks is almost never the one the client is asking — and on one part of it, the agency’s own published numbers have started to say something useful.
Read the case noteSuits against the immigration agencies: mandamus and APA actions over delay, naturalization litigation, and federal-court review of agency decisions.
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August 2026
Unreasonable by When? Mandamus and the Silent Green-Card File
The jurisdictional bar that is rarely briefed, the two TRAC factors that decide the case, and the exception Barr Laboratories announced and never decided.
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August 2026
The 120-Day Clock: Naturalization Under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b)
When the clock starts, whether filing strips the agency of authority, and why the door the statute opens is narrower than it looks.
Business and commercial disputes in the state and federal courts: pleadings and motion practice, injunctions, discovery, and trial.
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Coming soon
Removal and Remand: Winning the Forum Fight
The first fight in many cases is about the courthouse, not the merits. Notes on removal practice and the motions that follow.
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Coming soon
Preliminary Injunctions: Building a Record That Holds
Extraordinary relief has ordinary failure modes. On records, bonds, and the findings that survive appeal.
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