Thursday, July 2, 2009

ATTORNEY GENERAL DOES AWAY WITH COMPEAN ORDER

The Attorney General Eric Holder vacated the order issued in Matter of Compean by Attorney General Mukasey, and announced his intention to initiate a new rulemaking proceeding for regulations to govern claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in removal proceedings. The order in Matter of Compean limited non-citizen's ability to make claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in immigration proceedings.

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