The October 4, 2017 Meeting of the AILA New York Chapter: Federal Practice
The October 4, 2017 Meeting of the AILA New York Chapter: Federal Practice
Date: October 4, 2017, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm (2 hours)
Venue: New York Law School, Room W301
185 West Broadway, New York, New York 10013
Host: AILA New York Chapter Federal Practice Committee
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Meeting Agenda:
Moderated by David Isaacson
6:30 pm – 6:55pm
Speaker: Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe
Clerk of Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Topic: Update on Recent Developments at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
6:55 pm – 7:20 pm
Speaker:Assistant United States Attorney Brandon M. Waterman
Topic:Immigration Litigation in Federal Court: a Government Perspective
7:20pm- 8:10 pm
Speakers: Andrea Saenz and Paige Austin
Topic: Immigration Habeas Corpus Petitions
8:10 – 8:20 pm
Speaker: David Isaacson
Topic: Quick Update on 2016-2017 Case Law of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits
8:20 – 8:30 pmQ&A
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Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe has been the Clerk of Court at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2007. Prior to that she served for 14 years as Clerk of the Court at the New York State Supreme Court, First Department. In these capacities Ms. Wolfe supervised the development of three case management systems and most recently an electronic filing system.
Ms. Wolfe also served at the First Department as a Deputy Clerk (1989-1994) and a Principal Appellate Court Attorney specializing in commercial and criminal law (1982-1989). She began her legal career as an assistant district attorney in Bronx County, New York and is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and College of the Holy Cross.
Brandon M. Waterman is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He practices federal civil defensive and affirmative litigation with a primary focus on immigration litigation in federal court, which includes habeas challenges to immigration detention, APA challenges to agency action, mandamus actions seeking to compel agency action, and challenges to naturalization denials, among other things. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he worked as a staff attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for two and a half years, and as a law clerk for the Honorable Ivan D. Davis at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He earned his J.D. in 2011 from the William & Mary School of Law, and his B.A. in 2006 from SUNY New Paltz.
Andrea Saenzis a Supervising Attorney in the Immigration Practice at Brooklyn Defender Services. She is part of the team that provides deportation defense through the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP), the first-in-the-nation immigration public defender program that BDS helped to pioneer.
Prior to joining BDS, Andrea was a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, teaching and supervising law students in immigration and federal court cases. She received Cardozo’s “Inspire” award for faculty committed to public service and worked for three years on the budget advocacy that expanded NYIFUP at the city and state levels. Andrea has previously worked as an Immigration Staff Attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a judicial law clerk at the Varick Street Immigration Court in Manhattan, and an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project in Boston. She has spent her legal career specializing in criminal immigration, deportation, and detention issues.
Andrea graduated from Harvard Law School cum laude in 2008 and received her B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. Between college and law school, she taught English as a Second Language to immigrant students in Houston through Teach for America. She speaks Spanish and is admitted to the bars of New York, Massachusetts, the Southern District of New York, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Paige Austin is a staff attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union focusing on immigration issues. She is part of the litigation team at NYCLU challenging the denial of parole and bond to arriving-alien asylum seekers at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia via a class-action habeas. Prior to joining the NYCLU in 2017, Paige was an immigration attorney at The Bronx Defenders where she practiced removal defense as part of the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP). In that role, she litigated numerous habeas petitions challenging clients’ detention under INA 236(c) and 235(b) and obtained NYIFUP’s first win on an ability-to-pay challenge to a bond hearing. Paige graduated from Harvard Law School, has a Master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and received her undergraduate degree from Yale University.
David Isaacson is a Partner at Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC in New York, NY and co-chair of the AILA New York Chapter Federal Practice Committee. His practice includes asylum cases, other removal proceedings such as those stemming from criminal convictions or denied applications for adjustment of status, federal appellate litigation, anda variety of family-based and employment-based applications for both nonimmigrant visas and permanent residence, as well as waivers, naturalization and citizenship matters. He is admitted to the bars of New York, New Jersey, the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Princeton University.