Jose Encarnacion Cedano-Viera v. John D. Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the “common, everyday meanings” of the terms “sexual” and “minor” rather than the definition at 18 U.S.C. § 2243
• rejecting argument that Sentencing Guidelines case construing phrase “sexual abuse of a minor” was not controlling in immigration context
• “[W]e decline to consider new issues raised for the first time in a reply brief’
• “[Cjonstitutional claims by aliens who are subject to removal as aggravated felons must be raised in the district court through habeas corpus proceedings.”
• “[Parties] cannot raise a new 8 issue for the first time in their reply briefs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).