Practice Advisories & Brief Bank
Public immigration practice advisories, sample briefs, template motions, amicus briefs, and government guidance, organized in one searchable index and linked to the original host.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Koch FoodsEqual Employment Opportunity Commission v. Koch Foods. NIWAP Inc. collaborated with Latino Justice, the law firms of Arnold and Porter and Procopio, and Legal Momentum to submit an amicus brief to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in an interlocutory appeal of a Federal District Court decision to allow an employer who employed supervisors who perpetrated rape, sexual assault, felonious assault, extortion, sexual harassment and other discrimination against workers to use civil court discovery in a Why it matters: Useful as an amicus or advocacy example on Employment; confirm the cited authority and procedural posture before adapting it. |
NIWAP Library 5th Circuit Direct PDF available |
Employment
VAWA / U / T
BIA
Federal district court
Court of appeals
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Jul 14, 2025 | |
Agriprocessors Postville, IowaAmicus brief filed for the reversal of the decision by the Court of Appeals from the Eighth Circuit in the case of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s workplace raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. ICE demonstrated the practical effects of failing to require knowledge of the defining element of 18 US.C. § 1028A—whether the identification at issue is “of another person.” In Postville, the crime of aggravated identity theft, which carries a two-year mandator Why it matters: Useful as an amicus or advocacy example on Employment; confirm the cited authority and procedural posture before adapting it. |
NIWAP Library 8th Circuit Direct PDF available |
Employment
BIA
Court of appeals
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Oct 2, 2023 | |
Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. National Labor Relations BoardHoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, Supreme Court Of The United States (2001) filed an amicus brief supporting the importance of back pay remedies when labor laws are violated including relief for undocumented workers. Filed a second amicus brief regarding a Government of Mexico requested advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2002) concerning when a member nation of the Organization of American States (USA) limits labor law remedies availa Why it matters: Useful as an amicus or advocacy example on Employment; confirm the cited authority and procedural posture before adapting it. |
NIWAP Library National Direct PDF available |
Employment
Cross-forum
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Oct 2, 2023 | |
Chrismy Sagaille v. Christina CarregaChrismy Sagaille v. Christina Carrega (2020) Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division. NIWAP assisted the National Women’s Law Center providing expertise on immigrant survivors’ experiences with sexual assault and signed on to an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division. This amicus was filed on behalf of a number of women’s groups protecting sexual assault survivors from retaliatory defamation suits by their named assailants. (August 10, 2020). Why it matters: Useful as an amicus or advocacy example on Employment; confirm the cited authority and procedural posture before adapting it. |
NIWAP Library National Direct PDF available |
Employment
Cross-forum
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Sep 21, 2023 |