Immigration
Jul. 31, 2013
Hurdles remain for implementation of judge's order on counsel for immigrant detainees
Three months after a judge issued an injunction requiring the government to provide legal counsel for mentally incompetent immigrant detainees, the process for identifying those individuals and assigning them attorneys remains in flux.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Three months after a federal judge issued a precedent-setting permanent injunction requiring the government to provide legal counsel for mentally incompetent immigrant detainees, the process for identifying those individuals and assigning them attorneys remains in flux.
At a hearing this month, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said there was still work to be done on the "complicated mat...
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