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NEW FACE OF SCOTUS? — Potential court nominee Jacqueline Nguyen inspired by her family

March 11, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jacqueline Nguyen knows adversity.

She, her siblings, and their parents fled Vietnam, and the 10-year-old Nguyen spent her first days in the United States in 1975 in a refugee tent city at Camp Pendleton in California.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, 2016, Arizona Supreme Court, Arthur Hellman, Asian American, Associated Press, Camp Pendleton, Circuit Court, Jacqueline Nguyen, Judge Carlos Bea, Justice Antonin Scalia, Los Angeles, President Barack Obama, United States, Vietnam, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18

AZ abortion law affects Asian Americans

December 17, 2015 By Jason Cruz

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied an effort to revive a lawsuit challenging an Arizona state law banning abortions based on the race or sex of the child. The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and the NAACP’s Maricopa County branch sought to oppose the law which is […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, ACLU, API, AZ, African American, Asian Americans, China, Circuit Court, Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, India, Jason Cruz, Maricopa County, Miriam Yeung, NAACP, National Asian Pacific American Women, Representative Steve Montenegro, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

Court to consider preservation of judge’s racist emails

March 15, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Brown Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Civil rights attorneys and lawyers for the judiciary are due in federal court Tuesday for arguments over whether hundreds of racist emails from Montana’s former Chief U.S. District Judge should be preserved as potential evidence in future lawsuits. Attorneys for the judiciary are seeking to dismiss […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, American Indians, Associated Press, Attorney Neill Tseng, BILLINGS, California Civil Rights Law Group, Circuit Court, Clifford Birdinground, Crow Indian Tribe, District Judge, Judge Richard Cebull, Judicial Council, President Barack Obama, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20

Calif. shark ban argued in Federal court

August 24, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Obama administration is supporting Chinese-American business organizations in their effort to block enforcement of California’s ban on shark fin soup.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, Asian Americans, Chinatown, Chinatown Neighborhood Association, Chinese, Circuit Court, District Judge Phyllis Hamilton, Joseph Breall, Judge Andrew Hurwitz, Justice Department, San Francisco Chronicle, Vol 32 No 35 | August 24 - August 30

Supreme Court strikes down Arizona Voter ID law

June 22, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jesse J. Holland The Associated Press States can’t demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections unless they get federal or court approval to do so, the Supreme Court ruled June 17 in a decision complicating efforts in Arizona and other states to bar voting by people who are in […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, Associated Press, Circuit Court, Election Assistance Commission, Jacques Billeaud, Justice Antonin Scalia, Matt Roberts, National Voter Registration Act, Nina Perales, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court, Tom Caso, Vol 32 No 26 | June 22 - June 28

Woman adopted as baby faces deportation

June 2, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By P. Solomon Banda The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Attorneys are scrambling to find a way to prevent the deportation of a woman who was adopted from an orphanage in India as a 3-month-old baby, following a determination by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that she is in the country illegally.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, Child Citizenship Act, Chuck Johnson, Circuit Court, Customs Enforcement, Erlene Shepherd, India, Kairi Abha Shepherd, Kairi Shepherd, Salt Lake City Tribune, Salt Lake County Adult Detention Complex, United States, Virginia Kice, Vol 31 No 23 | June 2 - June 8, adoption, attention, language

Campus diversity suffers under race-blind policies

April 26, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Terence Chea The Associated Press BERKELEY, California (AP) — Fifteen years ago, California voters were asked, “Should colleges consider a student’s race when they decide who gets in and who doesn’t?”

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2012, African Americans, American Civil Rights Institute, Asian American, BERKELEY, Barmak Nassirian, Circuit Court, Harry Le Grande, Jerry Brown, Junior Magali Flores, Larry Pitts, Shanta Driver, Supreme Court, United States, Vol 31 No 18 | April 28 - May 4, Ward Connerly, culture

Goodwin Liu withdraws his appeals court nomination

June 4, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) — A liberal legal scholar is withdrawing his nomination to an appeals court judgeship after Senate Republicans blocked a vote on his confirmation late last month.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, Asian American Supreme Court, Circuit Court, Goodwin Liu, President Barack Obama, Republican Supreme Court, San Francisco-based, Senate Republicans, Vol 30 No 23 | June 4 - June 10, letter

Republicans step up opposition to liberal nominee

April 15, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

WASHINGTON — Republicans intensified opposition to the nominee for a San Francisco-based appeals court, setting up a test of whether President Barack Obama can win confirmation for an unabashed liberal.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, 2010, American Bar Association, Asian American, Bill Clinton, Circuit Court, Goodwin Liu, President Barack Obama, San Francisco-based, Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court, Taipei Times, Vol 29 No 16 | April 17 - April 23

Madoff judge Denny Chin nominated to appeals court?

September 17, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

NEW YORK (AP) — The White House plans to nominate the judge who presided over the Bernard Madoff case to the appeals court that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor served on, Sen. Charles Schumer said on Sept. 9.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, Bernard Madoff, Circuit Court, District Judge Denny Chin, FBI, General Electric Co, Google, Hong Kong, New York Stock Exchange, Operation Candyman Internet, President Clinton, Princeton University, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Vol 28 No 39 | September 19 - September 25, Wall Street, White House, Yet Chin

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