Carla Freeman v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that we “should interpret statutes to be coher- ent and internally consistent”
• applying reasonable limits to the waiver and declining to “read the VWP no-contest restriction into the adjustment of status procedural regime, effectively denying VWP applicants the procedural due process all other applicants enjoy, when Congress has not done so explicitly”
• applying reasonable limits to the waiver and declining to “read the VWP no-contest restriction into the adjustment of status procedural regime, effectively denying VWP applicants the procedural due process all other applicants enjoy, when Congress has not done so explicitly”
• applying reasonable limits to the waiver and declining to “read the VWP no-contest restriction into the adjustment of status procedural regime, effectively denying VWP applicants the procedural due process all other applicants enjoy, when Congress has not done so explicitly”
• “Mrs. Freeman qualified as the spouse of a U.S. citizen when she and her husband petitioned for adjustment of status ... ”
• “an alien’s status as a qualified spouse should not turn on whether DHS happens to reach a pending application before the citizen spouse happens to die”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).