{"id":123829,"date":"2025-06-23T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=123829"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:31:47","slug":"not-idle-speculation-brooklyn-judge-wont-let-jurors-hear-about-plaintiffs-immigration-status-while-deciding-damage-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/23\/not-idle-speculation-brooklyn-judge-wont-let-jurors-hear-about-plaintiffs-immigration-status-while-deciding-damage-award\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Not Idle Speculation’: Brooklyn Judge Won’t Let Jurors Hear About Plaintiff’s Immigration Status While Deciding Damage Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPermitting broad inquiry into a person’s immigration status risks creating a significant chilling effect,” said Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Aaron Maslow. “If courtrooms are perceived as opportunities for [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] enforcement, undocumented immigrants might cease to exercise the civil right of pursuing compensation for personal injuries resulting from a tortfeasor’s negligence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPermitting broad inquiry into a person’s immigration status risks creating a significant chilling effect,” said Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Aaron Maslow. “If courtrooms are perceived as opportunities for [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] enforcement, undocumented immigrants might cease to exercise the civil right of pursuing compensation for personal injuries resulting from a tortfeasor’s negligence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPermitting broad inquiry into a person’s immigration status risks creating a significant chilling effect,” said Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Aaron Maslow. “If courtrooms are perceived as opportunities for [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] enforcement, undocumented immigrants might cease to exercise the civil right of pursuing compensation for personal injuries resulting from a tortfeasor’s negligence. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPermitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-UNLiza.jpeg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123849,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123829\/revisions\/123849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}