Joseph Ngure v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the BIA’s decision whether to employ the [affirmance-without-opinion] procedure in a particular case is committed to agency discretion and not subject to judicial review”
• concluding that BIA’s decision whether to employ single-member “affirm without opinion” procedure in particular case is committed to agency’s discretion and not subject to judicial review
• holding that “the BIA’s decision whether to employ the A[ffirmance] W[ithout] O[pinion] procedure in a particular case is committed to agency discretion and not subject to judicial review”
• noting that reports that the Kenyan government tortured student leaders was insufficient because petitioner “has not provided evidence that he is similarly situated” to those individuals
• explaining that, to establish “[a] pattern or practice of persecution,” the persecution must be “systemic, pervasive, or organized”
• observing that it did not have jurisdiction to evaluate a BIA decision involving regulations that “did not intend to create substantive rights for aliens”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).