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Fifth Circuit· 3/28/2006

Leclerc v. Webb

Citations

  • 444 F.3d 428

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  • 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

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Judges: Jones, Smith, Stewart, King, Davis, Wiener, Benavides, Dennis, Higginbotham

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