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· 6/3/1986

Andrew Bamidele Bull v. Immigration and Naturalization Service an Agency of the United States Department of Justice

Citations

  • 790 F.2d 869
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 25567

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “the fact that [a] petition for an immigrant visa had not yet been approved at 9 the time that [the petitioner] requested a continuance [is] not, in and of itself, sufficient reason to 10 deny the continuance.”
  • holding denial of continuance to be an abuse of discretion
  • “[The] denial of the request for a continuance based upon the conclusion that Bull’s guilty plea ma[de] him statutorily ineligible for adjustment of status would not be an abuse of discretion were that conclusion correct.”
  • “[The] denial of the request for a continuance based upon the 12 conclusion that Bull’s guilty plea ma[de] him statutorily ineligible for adjustment of status would 13 not be an abuse of discretion were that conclusion correct.”

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Judges: Fay, Johnson, Clark

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