Immigration
Dec. 28, 2010
Judge Orders Immigrants Be Represented
A federal judge has ordered that two long-detained immigrants with mental disabilities get legal representation.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In possibly the first ruling of its kind, a federal judge ordered the government Wednesday to provide legal representation to two mentally disabled men facing deportation.
The ruling, in a class-action lawsuit filed by American Civil Liberties Union chapters in San Diego and Los Angeles, Public Counsel and Sullivan & Cromwell on behalf of Ever Francisco Martinez-Rivas, 31, and Aleksanber Petrovic...
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