Admission to the bar in the United States is the granting of permission by a particular court system to a lawyer to practice law in the jurisdiction. Each U.S. state and jurisdiction has its own court system and sets its own rules and standards for bar admission. In most cases,a person is admitted or called to the bar of the highest court in the jurisdiction and is thereby authorized to practice law in the jurisdiction. Federal courts,although often overlapping in admission standards with states,set their own requirements.
Disparate impact in the law of the United States refers to practices in employment,housing,and other areas that adversely affect one group of people of a protected characteristic more than another,even though rules applied by employers or landlords are formally neutral. Although the protected classes vary by statute,most federal civil rights laws consider race,color,religion,national origin,and sex to be protected characteristics,and some laws include disability status and other traits as well.
John Deacon Bates is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in December 2001,and has adjudicated several cases directly affecting the office of the President. Bates served as Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts,from July 1,2013 to January 5,2015,after which he returned to full-time service as a District Judge.
Bradley Joseph Schlozman is an American attorney who served as acting head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. A member of the Republican Party,Schlozman was appointed by Gonzales as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,replacing Todd Graves,and he assumed that office on March 23,2006. In April 2007,Schlozman left the U.S. Attorney position to work at the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. He was succeeded by John F. Wood as US attorney.
The International Association of Black Professional Firefighters (IABPFF),founded in 1970,is a fraternal organization of black firefighters. It represents more than 8000 fire service personnel throughout the United States,Canada,and the Caribbean,organized in 180 chapters.
The Judiciary of New York is the judicial branch of the Government of New York,comprising all the courts of the State of New York.
Alliance for Open Society International,Inc. (AOSI) is a U.S. public charity organized in 2003 under the laws of the State of Delaware.
Andrew Scott Hanen is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Ricci v. DeStefano,557 U.S. 557 (2009),is a United States labor law case of the United States Supreme Court on unlawful discrimination through disparate impact under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Gun laws in the District of Columbia regulate the sale,possession,and use of firearms and ammunition in Washington,D.C.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,colloquially referred to as DACA,is a United States immigration policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for an employment authorization document in the U.S.
Founded in 1969,the Boston Society of Vulcans of Massachusetts is a community-based,non-profit organization of Black and Latino firefighters in Boston. Their mission is to encourage urban Bostonians to pursue public safety careers. They also promote public safety and fire prevention through education programs and various other resources. The Boston Society of Vulcans is a member of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters,an association formed in 1969 in New York City to address the larger issue of racial discrimination faced by African-American firefighters nationwide. The Boston Society of Vulcans descended from the Vulcan Society of the FDNY,a black fraternal order of firefighters organized in 1940 to promote diversity and aid minority recruitment to the ranks of civil servants.
Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA),sometimes called Deferred Action for Parental Accountability,was a planned United States immigration policy to grant deferred action status to certain undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States since 2010 and have children who are either American citizens or lawful permanent residents. It was prevented from going into effect. Deferred action would not be legal status but would come with a three-year renewable work permit and exemption from deportation. DAPA was a presidential executive action,not a law passed by Congress.
United States v. Texas,579 U.S. ___ (2016),is a United States Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program.
The Presidential Memorandum on Military Service by Transgender Individuals,officially the Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security,is the 27th presidential memorandum signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on August 25,2017. The intent was to prevent transgender people from serving in the U.S. military,on the basis that they would be a financial burden due to sex reassignment procedures and associated costs. Federal courts delayed the implementation of this rule by issuing four injunctions. On January 22,2019,however,the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration's ban to take effect.
State of New York,et al. v. Trump et al. is an ongoing lawsuit against the rescission implemented by the Trump administration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. At issue are Fifth Amendment protections of due process,information use,and equal protection.
Jane Doe v. Trump (1:17-cv-01597-CKK) was a lawsuit filed on August 9,2017,and decided January 4,2019 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The suit sought to block Donald Trump and top Pentagon officials from implementing the proposed ban on military service for transgender people under the auspices of the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fifth Amendment. The court ruled that the Trump administration's policy should not be blocked. Nonetheless,the Trump administration's policy continued to be blocked due to three preliminary injunctions against it that were not part of this lawsuit and which remained in effect as of the lawsuit's conclusion on January 4,2019.
James Walden is an American lawyer. After serving in the U.S Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1993 to 2002,he entered private practice where he was involved in several prominent white-collar and antitrust cases in addition to a series of cases seeking governmental reform. He represents Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov,the former head of Russia's anti-doping laboratory. At one time Walden represented former UFC Lightweight champion Conor McGregor in McGregor's pending court case for felony criminal mischief and misdemeanor assault in Brooklyn,NY. Walden has represented plaintiffs in class action lawsuits suits against the New York City Department of Education and the New York City Housing Authority. He served as Special Counsel to a task force created by the Governor of New Jersey to investigate the administration of the state's tax incentive programs.
Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California,591 U.S. ___ (2020),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held by a 5–4 vote that a 2017 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) order to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program was "arbitrary and capricious" under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and reversed the order.
Wolf v. Vidal,591 U.S. ___ (2020),was a case that was filed to challenge the Trump Administration's rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Plaintiffs in the case are DACA recipients who argue that the rescission decision is unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment. On February 13,2018,Judge Garaufis in the Eastern District of New York addressed the question of whether the government offered a legally adequate reason for ending the DACA program. The court found that Defendants did not provide a legally adequate reason for ending the DACA program and that the decision to end DACA was arbitrary and capricious. Defendants have appealed the decision to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
