Emmanuel Mejia v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the BIA abused its discretion when it completely failed to consider the petitioner’s argument for reopening proceedings
• holding that the BIA abused its discretion by neglecting to address all of petition- er’s claimed bases for asylum
• holding that the BIA abused its discretion in denying a motion to reopen when it failed to consider the argument before it
• noting that an agency “does not have the discretion to misapply the law.”
• the agency abused its discretion by failing to consider a claim asserted in the motion to reopen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).