Lattab v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a plan to marry a United States’ citizen and then apply for adjustment of status was not a settled expectation
• holding 17 that “[s]ection 241(a)(5) . . . bars aliens who have illegally reentered the United States after 18 having previously been deported from applying for relief”
• characterizing the removal procedures then in effect as “cumbersome and duplica-tive” and expressing frustration because the “[rjemoval of aliens who enter the United States illegally, even those who are ordered deported after a full due process hearing, is an all-too-rare event”
• also noting that the legislative history “does not address procedural questions with either clarity or specificity”
• “It is well established that state judges are entitled to absolute 14 immunity for their judicial acts.”
• “[W]e have grave doubts about the correctness of the Perez-Gonzalez court’s conclusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).