Gala v. County of Livingston

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that inchoate or preparatory offenses have been found to be crimes “relating to” a controlled substance “when the underlying substantive crime involves a drug offense”
• upholding deportation of alien convicted under generic Arizona solicitation statute for soliciting drug possession
• interpreting the phrase “relating to” in relation to whether an offense was a choate or inchoate crime, i.e., whether or not it was dependent on the principal controlled substance offense
• “[T]he phrase ‘relating to’ ... has long been construed to have broad coverage .... Congress intended to give inclusive meaning in the immigration laws to the phrase ‘relating to.’ ”
• “The phrase ‘relating to’ ... has long been construed to have broad coverage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).