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“The great challenge facing us now is to invent the corrective feedbacks that are needed to keep custodians honest. We must find ways to legitimate the needed authority of both the custodians and the corrective feedbacks.”
—Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons (1968)
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Kris Kobach Defends Farmers Branch in Fifth Circuit Oral Argument
On October 4, oral argument in the important case of Villas at Parkside II et al v. City of Farmers Branch was held by a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans. Representing the City, IRLI Senior Counsel Kris Kobach guided the Court through the importance advances in the law of state and local immigration enforcement made possible by the recent decision of the US Supreme Court in its May 2011 decision, Chamber of Commerce v Whiting. Listen to the complete oral argument recording here.
This guiding precedent was not available to the federal district court in Dallas when it nullified the Farmers Branch housing ordinance in 2010.