De Morales v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that courts expect adequate efforts to avoid entrance of in abstentia orders
• holding “that the mechanical failure of the petitioners’ car on the way to the hearing did not constitute exceptional circumstances” where petitioners returned home instead of finding transportation to the hearing and made only a cursory effort to contact the court
• considering whether alien attempted to contact the immigration court prior to hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).