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· 11/30/2005

Jellal Benslimane v. Alberto R. Gonzales

Citations

  • 430 F.3d 828
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 26048
  • 2005 WL 3193641

How courts have described this case

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

  • granting a petition for review where the reason given for the denial was “completely arbitrary”
  • granting a petition for review where the reason given for the denial was “com- pletely arbitrary”
  • noting criticism of the BIA and IJ’s by other circuit courts and concluding that the “adjudication of [immigration] cases at the administrative level has fallen below the minimum standards of legal jus- tice”
  • noting criticism of the BIA and IJ’s by other circuit courts and concluding that the “adjudication of [immigration] cases at the administrative level has fallen below the minimum standards of legal jus- tice”
  • “[T]he adjudication of [immigration] cases at the administrative level has fallen below the minimum standards of legal justice.”
  • “An immigration judge cannot be permitted, by arbitrarily denying a motion for a continuance without which the alien cannot establish a ground on which Congress has determined that he is eligible to seek to remain in this country, to thwart the congressional design.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Ripple, Rovner

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