Hisham D. Abu-Khaliel v. Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that this court has “jurisdiction to review the IJ’s denial of a continuance”
• noting that petitioner married his second wife five days before his rescheduled removal hearing
• considering the “length of the prior continuances” and holding that the Immigration Judge’s denial of a continuance was not an abuse of discretion
• referring to § 1229a(a)(1) as a congressional grant of power to the immigration judges
• affirming in part because of the length of the prior continuances
• “These [two] reasons alone provide sufficient basis for this court to find that the IJ did not abuse her discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).