15 Dec 2011

Supreme Court to Weigh in on Arizona Immigration Law

The legal skirmishing has gone on for months, ever since Arizona's controversial immigration law, popularly known as S.B. 1070, was signed into law back in April 2010. You may recall that a year later, in April 2011, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court...

12 Dec 2011

Murthy Law Firm Gathering in Cambridge, MD

On a warm fall weekend, just before Thanksgiving, the Murthy Law Firm family gathered at the Hyatt Resort in Cambridge, Maryland, for a weekend retreat. Lawyers and staff members were joined by their families and significant others for an overnight getaway on the eastern reaches...

05 Dec 2011

Immigration Issue Caught in Election-Year Crossfire

The 19th-century military strategist Carl von Clausewitz observed that war is politics by other means - cautioning that war can't and shouldn't be undertaken except to advance a legitimate and carefully-considered policy objective. This was a radical idea at a time when absolute monarchs might...

17 Nov 2011

Comprehensive Immigration Reform Remains an Unmet Need

As President Obama is no doubt tired of hearing, he promised to tackle immigration reform within his first year in office. For a variety of reasons, that promise remains unfulfilled - the financial collapse and its aftermath, two wars, a string of natural disasters, the...