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WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court is taking
up the Trump administration’s
plan to end legal protections that
shield 660,000 immigrants from
deportation, a case with strong
political overtones amid the
2020 presidential election cam-
paign.
All eyes will be on Chief Justice
John Roberts when the court
Elise Smalley shows the wall of mailboxes in the Bellaire Apartment building where tenants have not received mail since the building opened.
USPS won’t deliver mail to new
apartments in State College
BY SARAH PAEZ
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None of the more than 100
residents in the Bellaire apart-
ment building in State College
have seen a single piece of mail
delivered since move-in day in
August.
Though residents at 711 Bel-
laire Ave. were given mailboxes
with keys and told mail would be
delivered, the U.S. Postal Service
in State College won’t deliver
directly to the building since it is
classified as a “dormitory,” ac-
cording to Tad Kelley, spokes-
person for postal service’s west-
ern Pennsylvania district.
Dave Jones, project manager
for development company Her-
locher Paterno LLC, which built
the Bellaire apartment building,
said USPS approved the build-
ing’s mailboxes for USPS delivery
in May.
But when the building opened
in August, “(USPS) said no, we
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hears arguments Tuesday. Ro-
berts is the conservative justice
closest to the court’s center who
also is keenly aware of public
perceptions of an ideologically
divided court.
It’s the third time in three
years that the administration is
asking the justices to rescue a
controversial policy that has been
blocked by several lower courts.
The court sided with President
Donald Trump in allowing him to
enforce the travel ban on visitors
from some majority Muslim
Since the Bellaire apartment building opened this summer, residents
have not had mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, which classifies
the building as a "dormitory."
don’t deliver because you’re a
dormitory,” he said.
Kristen Holzwarth, property
manager at Associated Realty
Property Management, said two
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ministration from adding a citi-
zenship question to the 2020
census.
Roberts was the only member
of the court in the majority both
times, siding with four conserva-
tives on the travel ban and four
liberals in the census case. His
vote could be decisive a third
time, as well.
The program before the court
is Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals, an Obama-era program
that aimed to bring out of the
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Cliffside Apartments in 2014 and
The Edge last year — had the
same issue with USPS, but were
able to resolve it in about three to
four months.
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shadows people who have been
in the United States since they
were children and are in the
country illegally. In some cases,
they have no memory of any
home other than the U.S.
With Congress at an impasse
over a comprehensive immigra-
tion bill, President Barack Oba-
ma decided to formally protect
people from deportation while
also allowing them to work legal-
ly in the U.S.
But Trump made tough talk on
immigration a central part of his
campaign and less than eight
months after taking office, he
announced in September 2017
that he would end DACA.
Immigrants, civil rights groups,
universities and Democratic-led
states quickly sued, and courts
put the administration’s plan on
hold.
There are two questions before
the Supreme Court: whether
federal judges can even review
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ing coming on next fall and we
don’t want to have the same
issue,” she said. “People deserve
to get their mail, even the stu-
dents.”
According to a 2012 update to
the USPS Postal Operations
Manual, a dormitory or residence
hall must have single or multi-
room units that “may share or
have access to centrally located
kitchens, bathrooms, showers or
social or common areas.”
Dormitories may be located
either on or off campus and be
privately owned, said the manual,
and “either the school or building
owner is responsible for the final
delivery of student mail. Post
Office personnel do not distrib-
ute mail into apartment-type
mailboxes for dormitories or
residence halls.”
Jones said The Apartment
Store, which owns and operates
the Bellaire and several other
rental properties in college town
markets, doesn’t have enough
space in its main office for a mail
room, and doesn’t have the per-
sonnel to sort through residents’
personal mail.
Even after Jones sent docu-
mentation to USPS that the Bel-
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Penn State is set to unveil a
portion of a new space Friday
that gives veterans and service
members a spot on campus
devoted to fulfilling their
needs.
Construction began in mid-
February to transform the west
wing of the first floor of the
Ritenour Building into the
Student Veteran Center. The
$4 million project repurposed
about 6,300 square feet into a
lounge, study area and multi-
use rooms.
The area is home to the uni-
versity’s Office of Veteran
Affairs and Services, and the
Office of Veteran Programs,
which provides assistance with
GI Bill benefits, support pro-
grams and counseling. The
remainder of the space is
scheduled to open in April.
“It’s really nice to be a part
of a community that is very
supportive of our military com-
munity, as well as an institu-
tion that sees the value and
really puts its money where its
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protests.
The decision came after a day
of fast-moving developments,
including an offer from Morales
to hold a new election. The crisis
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country’s military chief went on
national television to call on him
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DACA
the decision to end the
program and, if they can,
whether the way the ad-
ministration has gone
about winding down DACA
is legal.
In that sense, the case
resembles the dispute over
the census citizenship
question, which focused on
the process the adminis-
tration used in trying to
add the question to the
2020 census. In the end,
Roberts wrote that the
reason the administration
gave for wanting the ques-
tion “seems to have been
contrived.”
There also are simi-
larities to the travel ban
case, in which the adminis-
tration argued that courts
had no role to play and that
the executive branch has
vast discretion over im-
migration, certainly
enough to justify Trump’s
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laire is a private apartment
building that houses stu-
dents and non-students
and doesn’t include com-
mon areas, both State Col-
lege USPS and the Western
District USPS — which
covers western Pennsylva-
nia from Erie to Pittsburgh
and as far east as State
College — said the building
did not comply.
According to documents
provided to the CDT, USPS
Western District Manager
Troy Seanor told The
Apartment Store and Jones
that the Bellaire is student
housing because various
publications and online
identify it as such, leasing
information addresses
undergraduate and gradu-
ate students and under-
graduate student leases
require a parental signa-
ture.
“The delivery to this
facility is in line with our
regulations which require
single-point delivery to
hotels, institutions, schools
and similar places, in-
cluding student housing
facilities,” said Kelley in an
email.
Kelley said USPS isn’t
“refusing” to deliver mail
and have “attempted deliv-
ery” to the management at
the Bellaire to distribute to
residents.
State College Postmaster
Cate Knisely declined to
comment on the matter.
Congressman Fred Kell-
er, R-Kreamer, reached out
to USPS on behalf of the
Bellaire’s owner, David
Paterno, but got a similar
answer. In an Oct. 17 letter
provided to the CDT, he
told Paterno he “deeply”
regretted that USPS could
not resolve the dormitory
classification issue in his
favor.
Bellaire resident Elise
Smalley, who is not a stu-
dent and was placed in the
building through the affor-
Director Woody Allen, shown July 2 in Milan, Italy, had sued
Amazon in February after the online giant backed out of a
four-film commitment. Allen and the company settled the
case in papers filed Friday.
open over to $25 million.
The John Cena-led
“Playing With Fire”
opened in third place with
$12.8 million, while the
romantic comedy “Last
Christmas” starring Emilia
Clarke took fourth with
$11.6 million.
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ban. In the Supreme Court
decision, Roberts wrote
that immigration law gives
the president “broad dis-
cretion to suspend the
entry of aliens into the
United States. The Presi-
dent lawfully exercised that
discretion.”
The Supreme Court fight
over DACA has played out
in a kind of legal slow mo-
tion. The administration
first wanted the justices to
hear and decide the case by
June 2018. The justices
said no. The justice Depart-
ment returned to the court
a year ago, but the justices
did nothing for more than
seven months before
agreeing to hear argu-
ments.
The delay has bought
DACA recipients at least
two extra years because a
decision now isn’t expected
until June 2020, which also
Elise Smalley with one of her cats, Amber, in her apartment
in the Bellaire building. Smalley frequently buys things for
her cats from the internet, like bags liter, but the U.S. Postal
Service does not deliver to her building.
dable housing program,
said the lack of mail deliv-
ery has put an undue bur-
den on her.
The Bellaire is located
about a mile from the post
office at 237 S. Fraser St.,
she said, and she’s there
almost every day checking
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Allen, Amazon
settle lawsuit
Woody Allen and Ama-
zon settled a breach of
contract lawsuit that the
director had filed after the
company backed out of a
four-picture movie deal
could thrust the issue into
the presidential campaign.
In part the court’s slow
pace can be explained by a
preference to have Con-
gress legislate a lasting
resolution of the issue. But
Trump and Congress failed
to strike a deal on DACA.
Janet Napolitano, the
University of California
president who served as
Obama’s homeland securi-
ty secretary when DACA
was created, said the ad-
ministration seems to rec-
ognize that ending DACA
protections would be un-
popular.
“And so perhaps they
think it better that they be
ordered by the court to do
it as opposed to doing it
correctly on their own,”
Napolitano said in an in-
terview with The Associ-
ated Press. She is a named
plaintiff in the litigation.
Solicitor General Noel
Francisco, who is arguing
the administration’s case at
the Supreme Court, pushed
back against that criticism.
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on or picking up mail and
various supplies she orders
for her two emotional sup-
port cats. Since Smalley
doesn’t have a car, she
often has to rely on other
people to drive her to the
post office to help her get
heavy supplies — like the
because #MeToo allega-
tions from the 1990s had
resurfaced against him.
The terms of the settle-
ment were not disclosed in
a one-page filing Friday in
U.S. District Court in Man-
hattan. The filing said the
lawsuit had been volun-
tarily dismissed with preju-
dice.
The Hollywood division
of Amazon, the Seattle-
based conglomerate found-
ed by Jeffrey Bezos, se-
vered its ties with Allen in
June 2018.
The company cited a
renewed focus on sexual
assault allegations against
Allen, primarily those that
he had molested his daugh-
ter Dylan Farrow in 1992,
when she was 7.
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Teigen honored at
Baby2Baby gala
Chrissy Teigen received
an award for using her
celebrity to raise awareness
for low-income children
and families.
“We think the way we
did it is entirely appropriate
and lawful. If we did it in a
different way, it would be
subject to challenge,” Fran-
cisco said at a Smithsonian
Institution event exploring
the current Supreme Court
term.
The Trump adminis-
tration has said it moved to
cut off the program under
the threat of a lawsuit from
Texas and other states,
raising the prospect of a
chaotic end.
Then-Attorney General
Jeff Sessions determined
DACA to be unlawful be-
cause Obama did not have
the authority to adopt it in
the first place. Sessions
cited an expansion of the
DACA program and a simi-
lar effort to protect un-
documented immigrants
who are parents of Amer-
ican children that were
struck down by federal
courts. A 4-4 Supreme
Court tie in 2016 affirmed
the lower court rulings.
Texas and other Repub-
31-pound bag of cat litter
she orders over Amazon
once a month — back to
her apartment.
“It’s really taken away a
lot of my independence,”
she said. She often has to
plan her whole day around
the post office trips and
work within other people’s
schedules.
Though Smalley said she
knows the building rents
mostly to students, neither
she nor her roommate is a
student, and she has ob-
served zero common
spaces in her building that
would qualify it as a dormi-
tory.
“To be told that it’s a
student housing issue has
been very, very frustrating
because we don’t fall under
that at all,” she said.
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did sue and won a partial stability for all of these
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Texas.
The administration’s
people,” said Microsoft
president Brad Smith. Mi-
crosoft joined the challenge
best argument is a simple to the administration be-
one, said Josh Blackman, a cause, Smith said, 66 em-
professor at South Texas ployees are protected by
College of Law in Houston: DACA.
“The Supreme Court The Department of
should allow the Trump Homeland Security is con-
Administration to wind tinuing to process two-year
down a policy it found to DACA renewals so that in
be unlawful, even if rea- June 2020, hundreds of
sonable judges disagree thousands of DACA recip-
about DACA’s legality.” ients will have protections
Trump has said he favors stretching beyond the elec-
legislation on DACA, but tion and even into 2022.
that it will take a Supreme If the high court rules for
Court ruling for the admin- the administration, it is
istration to spur Congress unclear how quickly the
to act. program would end or
On at least one point, Congress might act.
Trump and his DACA crit-
ics agree.
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