Estate Whitehall v. State

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the inclusion of the waiver was a means of balancing the “harsh provisions” of the material support bar
• acknowledging that the respondent’s “argument that ‘material’ should be given independent content is by no means frivolous,” but finding it unnecessary to resolve the issue
• observing that “Congress has not expressly indicated its intent to provide an exception for contributions which are de minimis”
• finding that “Congress intentionally drafted the terrorist bars to relief very broadly, . . . and it did not intend to give us discretion to create exceptions”
• upholding finding of material support because the alien contributed a total of 1,100 Singapore dollars to a terrorist group
• finding evidence that an alleged' terrorist organization “use[d] firearms and/or explosives to engage in combat” with the Burmese government sufficient to raise an inference that the bar applied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).