This is a “friend of the court” brief filed in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island in an important immigration case in which the federal government is claiming that a person who will likely be tortured if he is extradited back to his home country cannot rely on that fact to prevent his return to that country.
Aguasvivas v. Pompeo
Attorney(s)
Roberto Gonzalez, Cody Wofsy
Date filed
May 20, 2019
Status
Victory!
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