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· 7/1/2018

CASTRO-TUM

Citations

  • 27 I. & N. Dec. 187

Syllabus

CASTRO-TUM, 27 I&N Dec. 187 (A.G. 2018) The Attorney General referred the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals to himself for review of issues relating to the authority to administratively close immigration proceedings, ordering that the case be stayed during the pendency of his review.

How courts have described this case

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

  • reducing “overall claimed mean power of identity . . . to eliminate any possible Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium”
  • finding DNA typing generally acceptable and allowing extraction of blood samples to conduct DNA testing
  • finding DNA typing generally acceptable and allowing extraction of blood samples to conduct DNA testing
  • expert believes that there is population substructuring but that this could be accounted for by adjusting the claimed power of identity of Cellmark test by a factor of ten to one in 140,000,000 for Caucasians and one in 84,000,000 for blacks
  • scientific bases of DNA/RFLP testing

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