Anderson Ferreira v. U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating when review- ing for an abuse of discretion, we will only determine whether the BIA exercised its discretion arbitrarily or capriciously
• reviewing the BIA’s denial of a motion to reconsider for abuse of discretion
• “While the [Board] properly considered the fact that an immigrant visa was not immediately available, the [Board] erred by limiting its analysis to only that factor.”
• “The BIA abuses its discretion when it misapplies the law in reaching its decision” or when it fails to follow “its own precedents without providing a reasoned explanation for doing so.”
• “The BIA abuses its discretion when it misapplies the law in reaching its decision” or when it fails to follow “its own precedents without providing a reasoned explanation for doing so.”
• applying arbitrary-and-capricious re- view to an “exercise of discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).