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· 1/13/1992

Jerkens Truck & Equipment, Inc. v. City Yonkers

Citations

  • 174 A.D.2d 127
  • 579 N.Y.S.2d 417
  • 1992 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 191

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that State convictions remain valid for immigration purposes unless vacated, amended, or modified by State-court order for procedural or substantive defect
  • explaining that full faith and credit principles were not implicated in vacated conviction cases because an Immigration Judge is interpreting the definition of “conviction” under the INA, not “reevaluating or otherwise questioning the validity of the state-court judgment.”
  • affirming In re Pickering and extending its test to “state-court orders that modify, clarify, or otherwise alter a criminal alien’s sentence”
  • affirming In re Pickering and extending its test to “state-court orders that modify, clarify, or otherwise alter a criminal alien’s sentence”
  • “I overrule the Board’s decision[] in . . . Matter of Estrada.”

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Judges: Brien

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