Alerts2.25.22

SCOTUS Cert Recap: Immigration, Free Speech, and Veterans’ Benefits

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On Feb. 18 and 22, the Supreme Court agreed to hear three cases, which present the following questions:

The U.S. Supreme Court returned from its recent recess to hold a conference on February 18 from which it granted three cert. petitions: 1) a Biden administration petition asking the Court to allow it to terminate a Trump administration policy (called the Migrant Protection Protocols) that requires certain noncitizens to remain in Mexico during their immigration proceedings, 2) a web designer’s petition raising a free speech challenge to a law prohibiting sexual-orientation discrimination in public accommodations, and 3) a veteran’s petition urging the Court to apply equitable tolling to the deadline for seeking retroactive veterans’ disability benefits. 

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