UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

After years of litigation in federal courts, today heralded a victory for Reeves & Associates and our clients in the battle to expand coverage of protection under the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) to “aged-out” derivative beneficiaries.  Today, September 26, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit published ...

By Nancy E. Miller & Robert L. Reeves

 We are ending April and beginning May on a very positive note in our ongoing-efforts to reunite families.  On Friday, April 20, 2012, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the Costelo Class-Action lawsuit filed by Reeves & Associates and its consolidated case De Osorio be reheard en banc.  En banc literally means “full cour ...

By Robert L. Reeves & Nancy E. Miller

On September 2, 2011, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in the consolidated cases of De Osorio and Costelo et al in which they found that the language of 203(h)(3) of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) was ambiguous and that the interpretation of the statute in the Board of Immigrations Appeals decision entitled Matter of Wang was r ...

By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves and Anthony J. Favero 

 On July 19, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California named Reeves & Associates (R&A) the class counsel for all children and families affected by the government’s restrictive interpretation of the Child Status Protection Act.  Since that time, our federal litigation team has devoted count ...

By Attorneys Robert L. Reeves & Joseph I. Elias

Reeves & Associates Files Appeal with 9th Circuit Court – Effort to Uphold Child Status Rights Continues

It has now been almost eight years since Congress passed the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) to provide much needed immigration relief for families.  One of the best-known provisions of CSPA provides a formula that amends how i ...

Order Granting Motion to Certify Class (July 18, 2009)

Los Angeles –  Getting a green card should be a happy time.  For thousands of people, however, the joy of coming to America is diluted by the nightmare of separation from their children who have turned twenty-one and are no longer eligible to accompany their parents.  The children are referred to as having “aged-out&r ...

Reeves Complaint in CSPA Lawsuit - Costelo v. Chertoff, Case No. SACV 08-688 (June 20, 2008)

Cuellar de Osorio v. Scharfer

Los Angeles – Reeves & Associates, A Professional Law Corporation filed a class action lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court, Central District CA, Case Number SACV08-688 JVX (SHx) on behalf of tens of thousands of immigrant families whose adult children have been ...