Jung-Nam Yang and Seung-Han Yang v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• proof of affirmative misconduct on part of INS would entitle petitioner to relief, on equitable estoppel grounds, from deportation proceedings
• requirement of affirmative misconduct only applies in cases in which government is acting in its sovereign capacity
• “[E]stoppel requires proof of affirmative misconduct on the part of the Government, a burden not easily met.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).