Pennsylvania Hague Convention Law

Juliana Arreaga Bravo v. Attorney General United States

<center><h3><font color="red"><h2><font color="red"> Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a petition for relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT”). </h3></font></b></i></center></font><br> <br> I. BACKGROUND <br> Arreaga-Bravo is a thirty-one-year-old woman from Tacana, Guatemala. She <br> arrived in the United States in May 2016. Shortly after ent... More...

$0 (01-22-2022 - PA)
United States of America v. Nikolaos Vastardis

<center><h2><font color="red"> Philadelphia, PA - International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution lawyer represented defendant with appealing his conviction and sentence for crimes that allegedly took place while he was Chief Engineer onboard a Liberian-registered petroleum tanker charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> During ordinary operation, oceangoing petroleum <br> tankers a... More...

$0 (12-31-2021 - PA)
TIEKU ANNOR v. ATTORNEY GENERAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

<center><h2><font color="red"> Philadelphia, PA - Immigration lawyer represented defendant with petitioning for review of a final order of removal charge. </h2></font></b></i></center><br> <br> Annor is a citizen of Ghana. He first entered the United States in 2008, and then <br> traveled back and forth between Ghana and the United States several times. In 2018, <br> when he attempted to enter t... More...

$0 (07-21-2021 - PA)
United States of America v. Anthony Nguyen, aka JoJo Nguyen and Jackie Lee

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with trafficking in endangered and invasive fish in violation of the Lacey Act.<br> <br> Anthony Nguyen, aka JoJo Nguyen and Jackie Lee, 49, of Pittsburgh, entered guilty pleas before U.S. District Judge Nora B. Fischer to counts one and two of the indictment returned against him on Nov. 13, 2020, alleging that he traff... More...

$0 (07-21-2021 - PA)
Tammy Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District

On October 18, 2004, the Defendant Dover Area School Board of Directors passed by a 6-3 vote the following resolution:<br> <br> Students will be made aware of gaps/problems in Darwin's theory and of other theories of evolution including, but not limited to, intelligent design. Note: Origins of Life is not taught.<br> <br> On November 19, 2004, the Defendant Dover Area School District announced by ... More...

$0 (12-20-2005 - PA)
United States of America v. David Sommers

<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/graphics/active/ByrneSmall.jpg"><br> </center><br> Newark, NJ - Pennsylvania Man Sentenced for Trafficking Protected Turtles<br> <br> David Sommers, 64, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to six months imprisonment, three years of supervised release including six months of home detention, and to pay $250,000 in restitution for ... More...

$0 (08-29-2019 - PA)
United States of America v. David Sommers

<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/graphics/active/ByrneSmall.jpg"><br> </center><br> Philadelphia, PA - Man Pleads Guilty in Pennsylvania to Trafficking Protected Turtles<br> <br> David Sommers pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to trafficking protected turtles. <br> <br> On July 10, 2018, a grand jury charged Som... More...

$0 (03-21-2019 - PA)
CHIAO FANG KU, AKA Chiao Fang Ronan, AKA Anna Ronan <p>v.<p> ATTORNEY GENERAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg/150px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg.png"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> Ku is a native and citizen of Taiwan. She was admitted to the United States in 1997 and ... More...

$0 (01-05-2019 - PA)
Chiao Fang Ku v. Attorney General United States of America

<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg/150px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit.svg.png"><br> <h2> <font color="red"><h2> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> Seeking to remain in this country, Chiao Fang Ku petitions for review of a final ord... More...

$0 (01-04-2019 - PA)
Rene Montes Mayorga v. Attorney General of the United States

This case gives this court another opportunity to analyze the meaning of a Crime Involving Moral Turpitude ("CIMT”), a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA”), INA § 212(a)(2)(A)(i)(I); 8 U.S.C § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i)(I).2 Before we reach that issue, we must decide whether the Immigration Judge ("IJ”), as affirmed by<br><br>1 The attorneys for petitioner have be... More...

$0 (06-27-2014 - PA)
United States of America v. Kaboni Savage

The United States of America charged Kaboni Savage with conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1962; murder in aid of racketeering activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1959; retaliating against a witness in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1513; using fire to commit a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C. 844; tampering with a witness in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1512; racket... More...

$0 (05-31-2013 - PA)
Ying Chen v. Attorney General of the United States

Ying Chen and her husband Qiang Chen (collectively, "petitioners”) seek review of a final removal order entered by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA”). At issue is the frequently encountered issue of asylum for the Chinese parents of American born children whose birth exceeds the maximum under China"s population control rules.<br><br>Mr. Chen, a native and citizen of China, Fujian... More...

$0 (03-22-2011 - PA)
Marina Karpenko v. Paul Leendertz

Paul Leendertz, father of the minor child at issue in this proceeding, appeals the District Court's grant of a petition filed by the mother, Marina Karpenko, for the child's return under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. For the following reasons, we will affirm the grant of Karpenko's petition and order the minor child's immediate return to her mother in ... More...

$0 (08-24-2010 - PA)
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Omar A. Omar

In these consolidated cases, the Centre County Court of Common Pleas dismissed charges filed by the Commonwealth for violations of the Trademark Counterfeiting Statute, 18 Pa.C.S. § 4119, based on the trial court's prior decision striking the statute as unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. Accordingly, the Commonwealth has filed direct appeals to this Court, which has exclusive jurisdiction ... More...

$0 (10-05-2009 - PA)
Michael A. Lombardo v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al.

This case requires the Court to consider the contours of state sovereign immunity and under what circumstances such immunity may be waived.<br><br>Alleging violations of both federal and state antidiscrimination laws, Michael A. Lombardo (Lombardo) filed an employment discrimination complaint in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Pu... More...

$0 (08-26-2008 - PA)
Thomas A. McElwee & Son, Inc. and John McElwee v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, A/K/A SEPTA

Appellee, John McElwee ("McElwee"), owned and operated a printing business, Thomas A. McElwee & Son, Inc., on the 6200 block of Market Street in West Philadelphia. The business had existed in that location since the 1950s, and McElwee had taken over management of it from his father, Thomas McElwee, in 1998, although the latter stayed on as a part-time employee. Also in 1998, Appellant, Southea... More...

$0 (06-02-2008 - PA)
<a href="http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/022886p.pdf" target="_new">Trevor Drakes v. Immigration and Naturalization Service</a>

<P>On August 12, 1998, Drakes, a native of Guyana, was stopped by the Delaware State Police for a traffic violation.1 He signed a number of traffic tickets using a false name and was charged with forgery and related offenses. Following his arrest, Drakes was unable to make bail and remained in custody for six and a half months. Pet.'s Br. at 4.<P>On March 2, 1999, while represented by counse... More...

$0 (06-03-2003 - PA)
<a href="http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/recentop/day/002473.txt" target="_new">E. Marvin Herr v. Pequea Township, et al.</a>

E. Marvin Herr, a land developer, appeals the grant of summary judgment to Pequea Township ("Township") and its three supervisors, Virginia Brady, Bruce Groff, and Martin Hughes (collectively, "defendants"), in this civil rights action. Herr alleges that his right to substantive due process was violated by an eleven year campaign of the Township and its officers to delay and obstruct his de... More...

$0 (12-12-2001 - PA)