Bustamante v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a U.S. citizen has a protected liberty interest in the adjudication of a noncitizen spouse’s visa application
• holding that a U.S. citizen has a protected liberty interest in the adjudication of a noncitizen spouse’s visa application
• stating that to establish bad faith, a plaintiff must “allege that the consular official did not in good faith believe the information he had”
• holding that U.S.-citizen spouse of Mexican national had liberty interest permitting her to challenge denial of her husband's visa application, but it was limited to assuring that \the reason given [for denial] is facially legitimate and bona fide\
• stating that to establish bad faith, a plaintiff must “allege that the consular official did not in good faith believe the information he had”
• describing Mandel as “a limited exception to the doctrine [of consular nonreviewability] where the denial of a visa implicates the constitutional rights of American citizens”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).