Raha Jorjani, staff attorney with the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, spoke on two panels at the Applied Research Center's "Facing Race 2008" conference in Oakland
In another victory for the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Clinic, Christopher Carr '10 helped a man achieve lawful permanent resident status after many years of uncertainty over his status.
In an impressive victory for the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a published decision November 10, 2008 embracing arguments submitted by King Hall students.
The strength of the UC Davis School of Law clinical programs has been and will continue to be on display this fall as King Hall students make arguments before the Ninth U.S. Court of Appeal, the highest federal appeals court in the Western states, on three separate occasions as part of their work with the King Hall clinics.
Professor Raha Jorjani has authored an Iranian American Bar Association Working Group document on the consequences immigrants face if charged or convicted with a crime. The document, part of a series of memoranda on legal issues of interest to the Iranian-American community, includes a general discussion of detention and deportation proceedings. It has been translated into Farsi and is available through IABA and its website.
On July 10, 2008, the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, led by Professor Raha Jorjani and Steliana Schmidel '08, won a motion to terminate removal proceedings on behalf of its client, a 37-year-old male born in Mexico who was facing possible deportation.
The UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic currently is pursuing a habeas corpus appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The challenge was filed on behalf of a client who, though claiming to be a United States citizen, was unable to provide proof of citizenship when he was detained by authorities. The Real ID Act of 2005 limits the rights of immigrants, and those assumed to be immigrants, to challenge their custody through habeas corpus, making it difficult for already detained individuals to dispute their detention. The court's ruling on the appeal is pending.
Professor Raha Jorjani of the Immigration clinic was interviewed by COLORLINES, a national newsmagazine on race and politics, in their July/August 2008 edition, on the general treatment of immigrants in the United States. Jorjani observed that many immigrants, even those living in the U.S. legally, feel they are punished for the same mistakes time and again.
Professor Holly Cooper of the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic served as a faculty member of the Open Forum and Practice Manual Review of the Executive Office of Immigration Review during the 2008 AILA conference.
