This is a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) session for attorneys in Alaska.
Presented by the ACLU of Alaska and the Center for Constitutional Rights, this training will cover the nuts and bolts of preparing, filing, and litigating habeas petitions challenging unlawful detention at the hands of immigration authorities. It will also discuss movement lawyering opportunities in habeas cases and highlight recent cases challenging the detention of organizers and activists and renditions to overseas detention camps.
1.5 CLE credits pending approval with Alaska Bar Association.
Agenda:
12:00-12:15— Intro to Habeas
12:15-12:30—Intro to Immigration Detention Statutes
12:30-12:50—Common Immigration Habeas Scenarios
1:00-1:20—Process for Filing Habeas and Maintaining Habeas Client Relationship
1:20-1:30—Q & A
Faculty:
CJ Sandley (they/them) is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where they focus on anti-carceral and racial injustice litigation. They are based in Birmingham, Alabama. Before joining the Center for Constitutional Rights, CJ was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, where they served as lead counsel of Braggs v. Dunn, a class action lawsuit challenging unconstitutional conditions in Alabama's prisons; challenged unlawful conditions in immigration detention centers in Georgia; filed habeas corpus petitions on behalf of people subject to prolonged and indefinite immigration detention in the Deep South; and represented migrant parents who were separated from their children by state child protective services agencies. CJ completed a federal judicial clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. They are a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Auburn University.
Jessica Vosburgh (she/they/any) is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she focuses on litigation and advocacy in support of liberatory social movements across the U.S. South. She was the founding Executive and Legal Director of Adelante Alabama Worker Center, a worker-led community organization in Birmingham. Jessica is a graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
Moderator:
Cindy Woods (she/they) is the Senior Immigration Law and Policy Fellow at the ACLU of Alaska. Her work focuses on building power within Alaska’s immigrant and refugee communities through the creation of resources, educational materials, and trainings regarding changes in immigration law; working in coalition with other service providers to respond to mass deportation efforts across the state; and increasing access to pro bono legal support and representation. Prior to joining the ACLU, Cindy served as National Policy Counsel at Americans for Immigrant Justice, where she monitored immigration-related law and policy changes and engaged in Administrative and Congressional advocacy to enhance protections for immigrant communities. Most of Cindy’s immigration practice has focused on representing detained asylum seekers in South Texas, as well as immigrants in Alaska seeking various forms of humanitarian relief. Cindy holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
