Francisco Cardenas-Delgado v. Eric Holder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that after its effective date, the AEDPA “rendered all aliens convicted of aggravated felonies ineligible for discretionary relief from deportation”
• finding that the change in eligibility for § 212(c) relief is a legally significant consequence
• a statute is impermissibly retroactive if it “attaches new legal consequences to events completed before the enactment of the statute”
• alien placed in removal proceedings in 2006 was eligible to seek relief under § 212(c)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).