Jose Juan Martinez Barroso v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the “BIA Practice Manual” is ‘the BIA’s official guidance on filing procedures and requirements,” and applying its requirements to filings
• remanding after stating that the BIA is “not free to ignore arguments raised by a petitioner” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “when interpreting [a federal statute], we avoid an interpretation that would lead to an absurd result, such as the expenditure of unnecessary judicial resources” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).