Scott Drake interviews Stephen Zack, the President-Elect of the American Bar Association, which is the largest and most recognized legal organization in the United States.
Mr. Zack is a partner at Bois, Schiller & Flexner in Miami, Florida. His backgroundis fascinating and inspirational. Mr. Zack was born in Cuba, and fled when he was 13 years old. He is the first Hispanic ABA president.
Scott Drake interviews Stephen Zack, the President-Elect of the American Bar Association, which is the largest and most recognized legal organization in the United States.
Mr. Zack is a partner at Bois, Schiller & Flexner in Miami, Florida. His backgroundis fascinating and inspirational. Mr. Zack was born in Cuba, and fled when he was 13 years old. He is the first Hispanic ABA president.
The U.S. Supreme Court took a major step toward ending a 17-year legal battle Thursday, saying lower courts made a mistake by focusing too much on forcing Arizona to spend more money to help students who haven't yet learned to speak, read or write English. Scott Drake interviews
Luis Bartolomei a partner with Reyes, Bartolomei and Browne in Dallas.
The U.S. Supreme Court took a major step toward ending a 17-year legal battle Thursday, saying lower courts made a mistake by focusing too much on forcing Arizona to spend more money to help students who haven't yet learned to speak, read or write English. Scott Drake interviews
Luis Bartolomei a partner with Reyes, Bartolomei and Browne in Dallas.
The U.S. Supreme Court took a major step toward ending a 17-year legal battle Thursday, saying lower courts made a mistake by focusing too much on forcing Arizona to spend more money to help students who haven't yet learned to speak, read or write English.
The court voted 5-4 to send the Flores vs. Arizona case back to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The instructions are to consider whether Arizona has complied with civil-rights law by improving both English-learner programs and K-12 education overall.
Scott Drake interviews Clint Bollick. He serves as the director of the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute.
The U.S. Supreme Court took a major step toward ending a 17-year legal battle Thursday, saying lower courts made a mistake by focusing too much on forcing Arizona to spend more money to help students who haven't yet learned to speak, read or write English. Scott Drake interviews Clint Bollick. He serves as the director of the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute
The court voted 5-4 to send the Flores vs. Arizona case back to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The instructions are to consider whether Arizona has complied with civil-rights law by improving both English-learner programs and K-12 education overall.
A unanimous Supreme Court said Monday that undocumented workers who use phony IDs can't be considered identity thieves without proof they knew they were stealing real people's Social Security and other numbers. The court's decision limits federal authorities' use of a 2004 law, intended to get tough on identity thieves, against immigrants who are picked up in workplace raids and found to be using false Social Security and alien registration numbers. Advocates for immigrants had complained that federal authorities used the threat of prosecution on the identity theft charge, which carries a two-year mandatory prison term, to win guilty pleas on lesser charges and acceptance of prompt deportation.
Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa, a Mexican immigrant employed at a steel plant in East Moline, Ill., traveled to Chicago and bought numbers from someone who trades in counterfeit IDs. Unlike earlier fictitious numbers Flores-Figueroa used, these numbers belonged to real people. Flores-Figueroa had worked at the plant under a false name for six years. His decision to use his real name and exchange one set of phony numbers for another aroused his employer's suspicions. He was arrested in 2006 and convicted on false document and identity theft charges. He appealed his conviction as an identity thief, but the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis upheld the conviction. With appeals courts divided on the issue, the Supreme Court stepped into the case.
After last year's raid on a kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, authorities charged 270 undocumented workers with identity theft. They all accepted plea deals in which they also agreed not to contest deportation.
Scott talks with Louis Bartolomei from Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei in Dallas who hosts the Hispanic Law Channel "Justicia Para Todos."
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for "Slate" writes:
If the Republican attack on Sotomayor is really going to consist of scattershot claims that she is too female and ethnic to be truly fair or impartial, it will be a losing demographic battle. Recall that 67 percent of Hispanics and 58 percent of women voted for Obama in 2008, along with 96 percent of blacks. Folks across the political spectrum may wish that Obama hadn't opened the door to discussions of the complicated connection between experience and judicial "empathy." But now that we are there, it simply has to be a mistake for her opponents to attack Sotomayor as someone who is just too darn human to sit on a court.
Scott talks with Dahlia Lithwick
Supreme Court Justice David Souter has announced he plans to retire from the bench at the end of this year's term.
Scott Drake Talks with Slate's senior legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick about possible replacements...including many women.
Scott Drake Interviews Angel Reyes (Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson and Bartolomei) about his book "Hispanic Heresy"
In Hispanic Heresy: What is the Impact of America’s Largest Population of Immigrants? (Mead Publishing, \$25), Angel L. Reyes, III, MBA, J.D., Bradley T. Ewing, Ph.D. and James C. Wetherbe, an attorney and two university professors respectively, address the impact of Latino immigration on the United States.
In this interview, host Scott Drake Interviews Attorney Angel Reyes of the firm Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson and Bartolomei in Dallas Texas, about his recently published book "Hispanic Heresy"
In Hispanic Heresy: What is the Impact of America’s Largest Population of Immigrants? (Mead Publishing, \$25).
Angel L. Reyes, III, MBA, J.D., Bradley T. Ewing, Ph.D. and James C. Wetherbe, an attorney and two university professors respectively, address the impact of Latino immigration on the United States and it's massive impact on our culture, laws, politics and other issues, as well as the coming wave of even more profound demographic and cultural changes.
This is also a glimpse at the about to be launch Hispanic Law Channel on The Legal Broadcast Network, a featured bi-lingual broadcast ready to start later this month.