Jayantha Edirsinghe Kankamalage v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• observing that a regulation may not apply retroactively unless it “unambiguously directs retroactive application”
• applying St. Cyr and concluding that a regulation impermissibly attached a new disability to an alien’s guilty plea, without examining whether the alien spe- cifically bargained for eligibility at the time of the plea
• “Once . . . a finding [is made] that an offense constitutes a particularly serious crime, a separate determination of danger to the community is not required.”
• “Once the INS makes a finding that an offense constitutes a particularly serious crime, a separate determination of danger to the community is not required.”
• immigration regulation promulgated in 1990, which made aliens convicted of “a particularly serious crime” ineligible for asylum, did not apply retroactively to an alien who pled guilty to robbery in 1988

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).