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Comment on This whole court is out of order! Why the AAO has no reason to live, and why it matters. by Elizaabeth Leete

Elizaabeth Leete — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:33:34 +0000

Glad to see your post. I think I pointed this problem out several years ago on the AILA Infonet message website, but the site was upgraded and the old messages do not seem to be there any more. You have done a much better analysis than I did at the time. On top of the other problems you discuss, now that the AAO takes 3-4 years to reach a decision, we are all better off taking our appeals to federal court.

Comment on Location by Margaret Holland Sparages

Margaret Holland Sparages — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:55:29 +0000

Cool location, Matt, especially for an immigration lawyer. I am a bit jealous! Margaret Holland-Sparages

Comment on This whole court is out of order! Why the AAO has no reason to live, and why it matters. by Gopal Panday

Gopal Panday — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:05:04 +0000

Dear Mr. Cameron,

I came across your writing while looking up Mr. Rhew.

I am truly baffled and not very sure as how this such an important body of AAO is functioning.
I am an appellant and from my personal experience I felt that the decisions coming out of this life changing venue are merely being rubber stamped rather than adjudicated case by case basis.
Well; to say the least your writing has been so eduational. People like you some how bring my faith back in the system; knowing as to some field experts are wathing on the common mans behalf.

Best regards.

Comment on This whole court is out of order! Why the AAO has no reason to live, and why it matters. by Anne

Anne — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:06:09 +0000

Thanks for articulating exactly what I was thinking!

Comment on This whole court is not entirely out of order! How the AAO has improved, and why it matters. by » Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog

» Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:01:08 +0000

[...] This post was current as of June 11, 2009. To see how the AAO has worked to specifically address the concerns expressed below, see this update. [...]

Comment on Hold me closer, tiny lancer by » Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog

» Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:20:05 +0000

[...] post) than it does about me. [↩]Or at least tend to sprinkle my posts with several times more miserable puns and Scotch references than AP style would typically allow [...]

Comment on This whole court is out of order! Why the AAO has no reason to live, and why it matters. by » Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog

» Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:56:41 +0000

[...] both of my regular readers may recall, I had a few things to say last year about the lack of transparency and possible lack of subject-matter jur… (AAO) of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). To my surprise, my painfully [...]

Comment on Padilla v. Kentucky : Gift Basket or Dirty Bomb? by weekly email edition | Capital Defense Weekly

weekly email edition | Capital Defense Weekly — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:21:13 +0000

[...] not be given a narrow reading. Paul Rashkind, Doug Berman, Gideon, the Legal Ethics Forum, and Mass Appeal have thought provoking analyzes of the opinion and where, like Apprendi, it may [...]

Comment on Supremes to consider whether bad immigration advice from criminal counsel is Constitutionally ineffective by » Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog

» Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:08:32 +0000

[...] in Padilla v. Kentucky–-the facts and issues of which I’ve previously summarized here—and there’s no way I’m going to get through any kind of analysis of this thing [...]

Comment on Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts = Crawford II: The Final Confrontation by » Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog

» Mass Appeal! | Matt Cameron’s Appellate Blog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:34:50 +0000

[...] last term. As I’ve already discussed (more than you ever really need to know here and here) it was an elegant and, at base, nearly inarguable Scalia decision which held that introducing [...]