City of Providence v. United States Department of Justice

Docket Number19-1802
Decision Date24 March 2020

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  • Colorado v. U.S. Dep't of Justice
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — District of Colorado
    • April 23, 2020
    ...receive grants and in what amounts, the DOJ is obliged to distribute funding pursuant to a statutory formula." City of Providence v. Barr , 954 F.3d 23, 27 (1st Cir. 2020) (citations omitted). Congress appropriates a certain amount to the Byrne JAG program annually, and under the formula, t......
  • United States v. Seward
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — First Circuit
    • July 28, 2020
    ...the bedrock principle that "[a] court's lodestar in interpreting a statute is to effectuate congressional intent." City of Providence v. Barr, 954 F.3d 23, 31 (1st Cir. 2020) ; see also Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc., 458 U.S. 564, 570, 102 S.Ct. 3245, 73 L.Ed.2d 973 (1982) (noting th......
  • Ryan v. U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — First Circuit
    • September 1, 2020
    ...beyond their scheduled release from criminal custody so that federal immigration officers may detain them. See City of Providence v. Barr, 954 F.3d 23, 29 (1st Cir. 2020). Such an unwillingness was antithetic to ICE's claim that courthouses were the safest place to arrest such noncitizens b......
  • City of Chi. v. Barr
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Seventh Circuit
    • April 30, 2020
    ...as a whole which addresses requirements related to the grant and the application for the grant itself. See City of Providence v. Barr , 954 F.3d 23, 38-39 (1st Cir. 2020) ; Philadelphia , 916 F.3d at 289 (noting that those four subsections all relate to the programs that will be funded unde......
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  • THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: IMMIGRATION, RACISM, AND COVID-19.
    • United States
    • University of Pennsylvania Law Review Vol. 169 No. 2, January 2021
    • January 1, 2021
    ...as to criminal justice matters as authority to deny funds for disclosures related only to civil matters."); City of Providence v. Barr, 954 F.3d 23, 39 (1st Cir. 2020) ("We do not read the Byrne JAG statute to grant the DOJ such sweeping authority."); City of Los Angeles v. Barr, 941 F.3d a......
  • Defunding Police Agencies
    • United States
    • Emory University School of Law Emory Law Journal No. 71-6, 2022
    • Invalid date
    ...See 34 U.S.C. §§ 10152(a)(1), 10156; City of Providence v. Barr, 954 F.3d 23, 27 (1st Cir. 2020).228. See Byrne JAG FAQ, supra note 225.229. See id. 230. In 2016, the DOJ ordered that these grants may not be disbursed to state or local governments that adopt "sanctuary" policies, which limi......
  • TRAPPED BETWEEN SOVEREIGNS: WHAT'S AN ETHICAL LAWYER TO DO WHEN FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL CRIMINAL LAWS CONFLICT?
    • United States
    • South Dakota Law Review Vol. 67 No. 3, September 2022
    • September 22, 2022
    ...2018 WL 4268814 (7th Cir. Aug. 10, 2018); City of Phila. v. Att'y Gen., 916 F.3d 276, 284-88 (3d Cir. 2019); City of Providence v. Barr. 954 F.3d 23, 45 (1st Cir. (79.) City of El Cenizo v. Texas, 890 F.3d 164. 173 (5th Cir. 2018). (80.) Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Rick Su & Rose Cuison Vil......
  • ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - BYRNE JAG FUNDS AND IMMIGRATION: HOW STATUTORY INTERPRETATION HELPED PROTECT THE SEPARATION OF POWERS - CITY OF PROVIDENCE V. BARR.
    • United States
    • Suffolk Transnational Law Review Vol. 44 No. 1, January 2021
    • January 1, 2021
    ...affected agencies" and that the applicants "will comply with all provisions of this part and all other applicable Federal laws." Id. (3) 954 F.3d 23 (1st Cir. 2020) (analyzing DOJ and Attorney General's lack of statutory authority to impose challenged conditions under 34 U.S.C.[section][sec......