Hifzur Rehman v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the tendency of immigration counsel to make overly broad due process challenges in lieu of focusing on the statutory or regulatory require- ments
• explaining in immigration context that reviewing court will not set aside agency decision on basis of claimed procedural error unless mistake or error caused prejudice
• rejecting due process claim where record did not show that outcome would change if IJ had given alien more time to submit evidence
• explaining in immigration context that reviewing court will not set aside agency decision on basis of claimed procedural error unless mistake or error caused prejudice
• “[C]ourts do not set aside agencies’ decisions unless mistakes cause preju- dice . . . .”
• “[C]ourts do not set aside agencies’ decisions unless mistakes cause prejudice, and how could we ascertain prejudice without an offer of proof or some substitute?”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).