As immigration attorneys representing clients, we may encounter situations in which client's rights were violated, whether it is a U.S. citizen detained by immigration authorities, an immigrant mistreated during arrest, or an immigration detainee harmed by poor medical care. Recovering for these violations can provide an important remedy for clients, even if their immigration case is hopeless. This seminar will identify the types of violations that can support recovery and the elements of handling such a matter, adding another tool to the attorney's arsenal for remedying injustice to the client.

-Identifying Violations that May Support Recovery
-Documenting and Discovering Evidence
-Forms of Action: Sec. 1983, Bivens, FTCA
-Pre-litigation Requirements
-Settlement and Recovery

Faculty:
Maria Baldini-Potermin (dl), Chicago, IL
Maria Baldini-Potermin founded Maria Baldini-Potermin & Associates, P.C. She focuses on removal defense, federal litigation, waivers, naturalization, family-based cases, and immigration consequences of criminal dispositions. She is the author of Immigration Trial Handbook (2010); Defending Non-Citizens in Minnesota Courts (2010); and Defending Non-Citizens in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin (2009). She received the Edith Lowenstein Award for Excellence in Advancing the Practice of Immigration Law (2010) and the AILA Chicago Chapter Minsky Mentor Award (2004).

Simon Y. Sandoval-Moshenberg, Washington, DC
Simon Y. Sandoval-Moshenberg is an associate with Lichtman and Elliot, P.C. of Washington, D.C. His practice consists mainly of removal cases and immigration litigation. Simon previously worked with Victor M. Glasberg of Alexandria, VA., where he gained extensive experience in plaintiff's side of federal civil rights and employment litigation, having represented both documented and undocumented immigrants in litigating and settling a broad range of cases against law enforcement officers, governmental bodies, and private corporations.

Michael J. Wishnie, New Haven, CT
Michael J. Wishnie is clinical professor of law and director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School. His teaching, scholarship, and law practice have focused on immigration, labor and employment, civil rights, and veteran's law. Mr. Wishnie is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk to Judge H. Lee Sarokin of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and also clerked for Justices Harry A. Blackmun and Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court.

(dl) = discussion leader

Cost:
AILA Members: $129

Non-AILA Members: $199

Registration:
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Convenience Learning Tuition Assistance Program:
Full and partial tuition assistance will be offered for every audio or web seminar to attorneys based on need and availability for all audio and web seminars. Eligible members include, but are not limited to, attorneys in non-profit or legal service organizations, attorneys seeking to devote their skills to public service, law students and unemployed attorneys. Please email a short, one paragraph, statement of need to teleconferences@aila.org. Recipients will be notified via email if tuition assistance has been granted. No phone calls please.