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· 5/3/1999

Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Aguirre-Aguirre

Citations

  • 526 U.S. 415
  • 119 S. Ct. 1439
  • 143 L. Ed. 2d 590
  • 1999 U.S. LEXIS 3005
  • 67 U.S.L.W. 4270
  • 99 Daily Journal DAR 4125
  • 1999 Colo. J. C.A.R. 2487
  • 12 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 212
  • 99 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 3168

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that Chevron deference applies to the Board based on the statutory allocation of power laid out by Congress in the INA
  • holding that decisions of the BIA interpreting the INA are entitled to Chevron deference
  • holding that the Ninth Circuit erred by failing to defer to the BIA’s reasonable interpretation of the INA
  • recognizing that “the BIA should be accorded Chevron deference as it gives ambiguous statutory terms ‘concrete meaning through a process of case-by-case adjudication’ ”
  • holding that Chevron applies to many of the Board’s decisions interpreting stat- utes governing immigration issues
  • recognizing that “the BIA should be accorded Chevron deference as it gives ambiguous statutory terms concrete meaning through a process of case-by-case adjudication” (quotation marks omitted)

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Judges: Kennedy

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