The Ninth Circuit digs itself in deep answering the question, “What is final?”

Monday, May 26th, 2014

Immigration law is complicated. A major reason is that it changes so much. In law school, when studying torts or property law, often students read seminal cases from the British House of Lords and “modern” cases from fifty years ago. An immigration lawyer can very seldom rely on an old case’s relevance. Immigration law is statute, agency, and court driven. Statutes and regulations change all the time and courts issue decisions all the time. Compounding the difficulty is that the…