Dennis Medina-Morales v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the statute “does not distinguish among stepchildren and natural children”
• referring to decisions of this sort as an exercise of “pure discretion unguided by legal standards or statutory guidelines”
• referring to decisions of this sort as an exercise of “pure discretion unguided by legal standards or statutory guidelines”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).