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· 1/26/2011

Denis v. Attorney General of the United States

Citations

  • 633 F.3d 201
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 1543
  • 2011 WL 223024

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a New York conviction for evidence tampering was “relat[ed] to” obstruction of justice within the meaning of the INA
  • holding that a New York conviction for evidence tampering was \relat[ed] to\ obstruction of justice within the meaning of the INA
  • recognizing that deference to an agency‟s reasonable interpretation of ambiguous statutory language would be appropriate
  • holding that the question “does not present an obscure ambiguity or a matter committed to agency discretion” because Chapter 73 “permit[s] us to easily determine the types of conduct Congress intended the phrase to encompass”
  • holding that the question “does not present an obscure ambiguity or a matter committed to agency discretion” because Chapter 73 “permit[s] us to easily determine the types of conduct Congress intended the phrase to encompass”
  • explaining that we “apply the phrase ‘relating to’ broadly, seeking a logical or causal connection”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McKee, Chief Judge, Sloviter and Rendell, Circuit Judges

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