Professor Jennifer Koh Quoted in "Immigration Judge's Guidance Sets up Race to Avoid Fifth Circuit" -- Bloomberg News

Professor Jennifer Koh is quoted in the Bloomberg News article "Immigration Judge's Guidance Sets up Race to Avoid Fifth Circuit." The article considers the guidance issued by Chief Immigration Judge Teresa Riley in response to a ruling from Judge Sunshine Sykes of the US District Court for the Central District of California regarding mandatory detention.

Excerpts from  "Immigration Judge's Guidance Sets up Race to Avoid Fifth Circuit"

Jennifer Koh, a professor at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, said she expects a “race to the courthouse” for detainees’ lawyers to file petitions before their clients are swept to the Fifth Circuit from other jurisdictions following Sykes’ order.

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In the meantime, “there will be more chaos, and more unnecessary human suffering,” said Koh of Pepperdine. “To be completely honest, it is not a feature of a functional legal system to have lawyers needing to race to file habeas petitions, and for courts then to have to make decisions over whether they can hear a case based on literally the minute at which a lawyer was able to file something.”

The complete article may be found at Bloomberg News