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Undocumented youth line up to stay in the United States

As thousands of young undocumented immigrants lined up last month for a new program allowing those who meet certain qualifications to stay temporarily in the United States, ABA President Laurel G. Bellows urged applicants to avoid unscrupulous non-lawyer immigration consultants, or “notarios,” who are poised to exploit them.

Federal Circuit hears judicial pay case appeal

The ABA urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this month to hold that Congress’s repeated blocking of cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for Article III judges in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2007 and 2010 violates the U.S. Constitution’s compensation clause guaranteeing undiminished compensation.

New attorney-client rules rejected for Guantanamo

A federal judge ruled Sept. 6 that the Justice Department’s (DOJ) recent attempt to restrict access to counsel for Guantanamo detainees who have a right to petition for habeas corpus relief constituted an “illegitimate exercise of executive power” and ordered that the protective order that has been in place for the past eight years continue to govern access to counsel for detainees.

Continuing resolution would fund government for 6 months

Congress was poised this month to approve a fiscal year 2013 continuing appropriations resolution that would fund the federal government through March 27, 2013.

ABA, Congress weigh use of forensic science

The ABA House of Delegates approved a new policy in August urging prosecutors to support, among other things, “an effort to identify the strengths and weaknesses of current forensic science methods.”