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In 1990, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990 ("IMMACT"), P.L. 101–649, Congress established a procedure by which the Attorney General may provide temporary protected status to immigrants in the United States who are temporarily unable to safely return to their home country because of ongoing armed conflict, an environmental disaster, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions.
Haiti first received temporary protection status in 2010 under former President Barack Obama. Trump tried to revoke the status for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Sudan, Nepal and Nicaragua in 2019 ...
A restraining order issued by the Justice Court of Las Vegas. A restraining order or protective order [a] is an order used by a court to protect a person in a situation often involving alleged domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, assault, harassment, stalking, or sexual assault.
Such an order may later be overturned or vacated during the litigation; or it may become a final order and judgment, subject then to appeal. In the area of domestic violence, U.S. courts will routinely issue a temporary order of protection (TOP, or temporary protective order, TPO) to prevent any further violence or threat of violence.
A state that does not otherwise have jurisdiction may enter a temporary emergency order if the child is in danger and needs immediate protection. After issuing such an order, the state court should determine if there is an existing custody order from another state in effect. If there is an existing order, the emergency court must allow a ...
In the United States, a red flag law (named after the idiom red flag meaning “warning sign“; also known as a risk-based gun removal law, [1]) is a gun law that permits a state court to order the temporary seizure of firearms (and other items regarded as dangerous weapons, in some states) from a person who they believe may present a danger.
A federal judge had ordered Texas to move floating barriers meant to deter migrants at the border — an appeals court said they can stay, for now. Appeals court orders temporary stay on Texas ...
A provisional measure of protection is the term that the International Court of Justice (ICJ, World Court) uses to describe a procedure "roughly equivalent" [1] to an interim order (which can be either a temporary restraining order or a temporary directive order) in national legal systems.