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State Bar & Bar Associations

Feb. 26, 2015

Bar groups join fight against order barring immigration judge from Iranian cases

A coalition of ethnic bar groups and a national immigration judges association are supporting a lawsuit challenging a Justice Department order to bar Judge Afsaneh Ashley Tabaddor from cases involving Iranian nationals.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A coalition of ethnic bar associations and a national immigration judges group have moved to support a lawsuit challenging a Justice Department order barring an Iranian-American immigration judge from cases involving Iranian nationals.


The lawsuit by Los Angeles-based Judge Afsaneh Ashley Tabaddor accuses her supervisors in the Justice Department of "lawless and discriminatory action"...

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