Brown v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that executive discretion to suspend deportation is \a matter of grace\ and \unfettered discretion\
• explaining that executive discretion to suspend deportation is “a matter of grace” and “unfettered discretion”
• finding that “Congress did not provide statutory standards for determining who, among qualified applicants for suspension [from deportation], should receive the ultimate relief’ but left decision to “sound discretion of the Attorney General”
• distinguishing eligibility for relief from the decision about whether to grant that relief
• possible relief from deportation “manifestly not a matter of right” but “is in all cases a matter of grace”
• attorney general’s power to exercise discretion in granting or denying aliens’ applications for suspension of deportation rulings may be subdelegated to special inquiry officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).