all - Opinion Summaries

Paripovic v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
The meaning of "last habitually resided" under 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a)(42), for a "stateless" individual, depends on the amount of time the...

Boer-Sedano v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Denial of plaintiff's request for asylum is reversed where he was a member of the social group consisting of homosexual men in Mexico and was...

Casillas-Figueroa v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
The Board of Immigration Appeals properly denied plaintiff suspension of deportation on the ground that he could not show seven years of continual...

Grass v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
8 U.S.C. section 1252(a)(2)(D) grants no jurisdiction to review an Immigration Judge's purely discretionary decision to deny a continuance of a...

Oyebanji v. Gonzales

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Vehicular homicide under New Jersey law is not a crime of violence as defined by 18 U.S.C. section 16, and is thus not a ground for removal.

Partyka v. Atty. Gen.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, negligent infliction of bodily injury with a deadly weapon is not a crime involving moral turpitude.

Alvarez-Barajas v. Gonzales

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
Denial of plaintiff's petition for habeas corpus is affirmed over his claim that the immigration judge improperly decided that he is ineligible for...

Preet Kaur v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Plaintiff's petition for review is denied where the immigration judge's adverse credibility determination was supported by substantial evidence.

Cordes v. Gonzales

Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
The retroactive application of the amended aggravated felony definition under section 321 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant...

Cuadra v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
The plain and unambiguous language of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act provides that an alien seeking relief must establish...