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Amicus in Sagaille v. Carrega (N.Y. App. Div. Aug. 10, 2020)
NIWAP assisted the National Women’s Law Center providing expertise on immigrant survivors’ experiences with sexual assault and signed on to an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division. This amicus was filed on behalf of a number of women’s groups protecting sexual assault survivors from retaliatory defamation suits by their…
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Amicus in Salame Ajami v. Tescari Solano (6th Cir. Apr. 19, 2022)
NIWAP filed an Amicus Brief in a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals case in which a Venezuelan mother who had been granted asylum in the United States as a victim of domestic violence was ordered by the District Court in a Hague Convention case to return her children who had also been granted asylum in…
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Amicus in Sanchez v. Gonzalez (7th Cir. Nov. 8, 2006)
Amicus brief discussing the Violence Against Women Act’s legislative history and purpose and the special motion to reopen provisions designed for immigrant victims filing VAWA cancellation of removal cases. The trial court and BIA failed to offer Sanchez access to VAWA’s motion to reopen provisions. Additionally, Sanchez’ trial counsel was unfamiliar with VAWA’s special rules…
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Amicus in Senjab v. Alhulaibi (Nev. Sep. 25, 2020)
NIWAP, represented by K&L Gates LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of a domestic violence victim who was an F-2 visa holder spouse. After receiving a protection order protecting the victim and her son from ongoing abuse from her F1-visa holder spouse, the victim filed for divorce. The divorce court dismissed the victim’s divorce…
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Amicus in Soto Alvarado v. Garland (D. R.I. June 13, 2023)
Geidy Mavely Soto Alvarado And Mauricio Antonio Garcia Soto v. Merrick Garland (June 13 2023) US District Court of Rhode Island. NIWAP, represented by Crowell and Moring, led an amicus brief that was joined by Harvard Law School professors and clinics, the ACLU, the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and all of the major…
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Amicus in Souratgar v. Fair (2nd Cir. Feb. 22, 2013)
NIWAP participated in an amicus in a Hague Convention international custody case with Sanctuary for Families in New York. The amicus address domestic violence and immigration related abuse and provided social science research and legislative history documenting the dynamics of domestic violence experienced by immigrant victims, particularly immigration related abuse as well as research and…
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Amicus in re R-A (Dep’t of Just. Feb 13, 2004)
This brief examines domestic violence as a basis for gender-based asylum through particular social group. The brief emphasizes that there is growing recognition of domestic violence as a basis for asylum in the international community and finds that the petitioner qualifies for asylum on this basis (February 13 2004).
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Amicus in Rodrigues Tornes v. Barr (9th Cir. Oct. 18, 2019)
NIWAP led an amicus brief with DLA Piper for a case filed in the 9th Circuit discussing how domestic violence victims are able to receive gender-based asylum because they domestic violence they experience is based on their social group membership. NIWAP’s brief documented the cultural, religious and social conditions that domestic violence victims suffer that…
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Amicus in Rodriguez-Ramirez v. Barr (5th Cir. Aug 16, 2019)
This brief was written in collaboration with Baker and Mackenzie Law Firm and discusses how incest relationships qualify as a domestic relationship and how federal law definitions of domestic violence should apply in gender-based asylum cases (August 16, 2019).
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Amicus in Romain v. Napolitano (E.D.N.Y. Mar 16, 2012)
NIWAP served as lead amicus in the first VAWA Confidentiality appeal of denial of a criminal court discovery order. This was a case in which a domestic violence perpetrator who was being prosecuted for domestic violence sought discovery under Brady and W.M.V.Crio of the VAWA confidentiality protected VAWA self-petition immigration case filed by his battered…
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