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As a client at Gibbs Houston Pauw your representation is award winning, so you can be assured that we will fight zealously for your rights.

• Jack Wasserman Award for Excellence in Litigation
• Super Lawyers: Robert Gibbs has been selected as a Washington Super Lawyer 5 times.
• Martindale-Hubbell: received top rating from the leading national lawyers' directory
• Litigator of the Year Award:  from the American Immigration Lawyers Association in 2001
• ACLU-W Civil Libertarian of the Year Award, 1986

• Morales-Izquierdo v. Gonzales, 477 F.3d 691 (9th Cir. 2007) (en banc): Challenge to DHS policy of reinstating prior orders of deportation;

• Perez-Enriquez v. Gonzales, 463 F.3d 1007 (9th Cir. 2006) (en banc): Individuals who obtained permanent residence under the SAW legalization program are eligible for waivers of deportation;

• Lee v. Gonzales, No. C04-449 RSL (W.D. Wash, Feb. 16, 2006): Statewide class action requiring reopening of naturalization denials where based on lack of good moral character;

• Quezada-Bucio v. Ridge, 317 F.Supp.2d 1221 (W.D.Wash. 2004): challenge to DHS policy of mandatory detention for certain non-citizens;
  
  

• Immigrant Assistance Project v. INS, 709 F. Supp. 998, 717 F. Supp. 1444 (W.D.Wash. 1989), aff'd, 976 F.2d 1198 (9th Cir. 1992), aff'd, 306 F.3d 842, (9th Cir., 2002): class action invalidating INS amnesty procedures;

• Gorbach v. Reno, 219 F.3d 1087 (9th Cir. 2000) en banc, national class action setting aside INS regulation on administrative denaturalization;
  

• Washington Beef, 328NLRB 612 (1999): employer has mandatory duty to bargain over time period to allow employees to respond to INS no match letter.

• Proyecto San Pablo v. INS, 784 F. Supp. 738 (D.Ariz 1991), 189 F.3d 1130 (9th Cir. 1999): class action invalidating amnesty procedures where the applicant had a prior deportation;

• Walters v. Reno, 145 F.3d 032 (9th Cir. 1998); national class action setting aside INS regulation on document fraud procedures;

• Gete v. INS, 121 F.3d 1285 (9th Cir. 1997) class action setting aside INS vehicle seizure procedures;

• Lopez v. INS, No. 78-1912-WMB (C.D. Calif., Aug. 20, 1992): class action requiring INS to stop questioning aliens upon request to speak to counsel;

• UFW v. INS, Civ S 87-1064 JFM (E.D. Calif., Sept. 18. 1990): class action setting aside INS procedures for adjudicating seasonal agricultural worker applications