Lawrence v. Sparks

How courts have described this case

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

• calling the LeClerc majority’s reasoning “perverse” and “exactly backwards” because, in “drawing] distinctions between different classes of aliens, it shifts responsibility over aliens from the Congress to the States”
• calling the LeClerc majority’s reasoning “perverse” and “exactly backwards” because, in “draw[ing] distinctions between different classes of aliens, it shifts responsibility over aliens from the Congress to the States”
• Higginbotham, J., dissenting from the denial of a rehearing en banc and criticizing the majority for its “puzzling” silence in ignoring the doctrine of federal preemption

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).