| Major Litigation Conducted Against the Immigration Service
1. Masonry Masters, Inc. v. Thornburg, 875 F. 2d 898 (C.A.D.C. 1989)
2. Full Gospel Portland Church v. Thornburg, 742 F. Supp. 682 (D.D.C. 1990)
3. Nong v. Reno, 28 F. Supp. 2d 27 (D.D.C. 1998)
4. Misola V. INS, 162 F. 3d 1155 (4th Circuit 1998)
5. Foroglou v. INS, 170 F.3d 68 (1st Circuit, 1999)
6. Behdani v. INS, 196 F.3d 1262 (11th Circuit, 1999)
7. Aldana-Archila v. Reno, 1999 WL 775911 (C.A.4, 1999)
8. Ventura-Orellana v. INS, 213 F.3d 634, 2000 WL 458998 (C.A. 4th Circuit, 2000)
9. Wilson v. Smith, 587 F. Supp. 470587 F. Supp. 470 (D.C.D.C., 1984)
10. Longwood Village Restaurant, Ltd. v. Ashcroft, 157 F. Supp.2d 61, 2001 WL 959305 (D.D.C., 2001)
11. Poh Choong Chee v. Ashcroft, (D.C.D.C., 2001)
Attorney's Fee Awards
1. Masonry Masters - 4/8/94 and 3/19/92 ? ( $87,342.75)
2. Full Gospel Portland - 8/24/90 and 11/20/97 ($13,659.96)
3. Longwood Village Restaurant ? (3/8/02) $16,600
4. Poh Choong Chee, 2001 - ($650)
5. Kansas City - 12/14/00 - ($1,000)
6. Birmingham, AL ? 1/30/95 ($7,683.56)
7. Nong v. Reno, 1998 ? ($10,305.38)
Publication
Co-author, Taxation and International Monetary Policy (17th Syracuse Law Review, 1966).
How to Get an Immigrant Visa; How to Get an L-1 Visa; Permanent Residence and Other Immigration Benefits for Foreign Student; and Immigrant Investor - USA.
Newspapers and Magazine Articles
Hong Kong Standard, Articles on Immigration, 1983-84 Quoted in Hong Kong Standard and South China Morning Post, Business News on International Trade, 1983-84
South China Morning Post, Business News on Immigration, August 1984
Pacific Century on Immigration, October 1989
South China Morning Post on American Interests, Hong Kong 1997, October 1989
American Immigration Institute Newsletter, April 1990
Far Eastern Economic Review on Hong Kong 1997, June 1990
National Sales Tax Policy Proposal, Insight Magazine, February 1995
Hong Kong Reversion to China; It?s Not Too Late, Asian Week
The Dog That Could Not Sleep, Immigration Column, Asian Fortune, November 1999
Quoted in Perfidious Albion, LBIA, by Bill McGurn, on U.S. visa policy on Hong Kong residents.
Television Appearances
CNN, regarding the deportation of the blind sheik after the bombing of the New York World Trade Center, 1993.
WUSA, Channel 9, Washington, District of Columbia, on the restoration of residence rights to a veteran?s Japanese wife, 1999.
Also appeared on public television (American Interests) as expert commentator on the political situation in Hong Kong, during the count down to the Chinese assumption of sovereignty in 1997.
?Focus?, International Trade, Featured Panelist, Hong Kong Television, 1983.
Immigration and the Constitution, Channel 33, Arlington, VA, 1985-86.
American Interest, PBS, Hong Kong 1997, September 1989
Radio
June/July 1989, National Public Radio, interview by Jessica Berman, Student Problems, Post-Tiananmen Square.
Miscellaneous
Extensive travel and foreign connections in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica.
Co-creator and special counsel to the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce. See websitehttp://www.uspaacc.com
Military Service
Enlisted 1959-1965. Reserve obligation finished in 1965. Active service performed at Vicenza, Italy, 1959-1962. Enlistment involuntarily extended during Cuban Missile Crises.
Languages
Modest Italian and Spanish |
