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Caroline practices in the areas of commercial litigation, class action defense, ERISA litigation, telecommunications law and drone law. She serves as co-chair of the firm’s Unmanned and Autonomous Systems (drones and driverless vehicles) Practice Group.

On Aug. 21, 2020, Chief Judge Algenon Marbley of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ordered the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) to permit thousands of foreign nationals to work in the U.S. before they receive printed Employment Authorization Documents (EADs). These workers had already been approved to work by USCIS, but they had not received the EADs they must provide to their employers. Although these cards are usually issued within a few days of approval of an application for employment authorization, USCIS had slowed down its production of them earlier this year.
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