Dedji v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that IJs have “inherent discretion to depart from the letter of the Local Rules in certain circumstances where fairness demands that noncompliance be excused”
• holding that “IJs are accorded wide latitude in calendar management” (citation omitted)
• finding that the IJ abused his discretion by failing to consider whether a departure from the local rule was warranted where a fire in Dedji’s attorney’s office prevented the timely submission of his documents
• holding 9 the IJ has broad discretion to set and enforce deadlines
• recognizing IJ’s discretionary authority to depart from filing deadlines set by local rules when the applicant “has demonstrated good cause for the failure to timely file documents and a likelihood of substantial prejudice from enforcement of the deadline”
• reviewing application of 8 C.F.R. § 1003.31(c) for abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).