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· 8/14/2008

Cospito v. Attorney General of the United States

Citations

  • 539 F.3d 166
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 17297
  • 2008 WL 3484665

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “our jurisdiction does not extend to an agency’s factual and discretionary determinations underlying the denial of waivers based on an analysis involving extreme hardship”
  • ruling that a court cannot review an alien’s contentions that the IJ “gave short shrift to crucial evidence” as that is simply a quarrel over the exercise of discretion
  • holding that an argument “that the IJ gave ‘short shrift to crucial evidence’ . . . [or] ‘ignored crucial and uncontradicted evidence’ . . . do[es] not 4 raise constitutional claims or questions of law”
  • addressing arguments that IJ, inter alia, “gave ‘short shrift to crucial evidence’ ” and “ ‘simply looked at individual factors’ rather than provide an evaluation of the factors in the aggregate”
  • addressing arguments that IJ, inter alia, “gave ‘short shrift to crucial evidence’ ” and “ ‘simply looked at individual factors’ rather than provide an evaluation of the factors in the aggregate”
  • addressing arguments that IJ, inter alia, “gave ‘short shrift to crucial evidence’ ” and “ ‘simply looked at individual factors’ rather than provide an evaluation of the factors in the aggregate”

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Judges: Fuentes, Aldisert, Garth

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