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· 5/5/2008

Lenis v. U.S. Attorney General

Citations

  • 525 F.3d 1291
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 9634
  • 2008 WL 1931239

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that we lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen sua sponte
  • holding that sua sponte decisions were committed to agency discretion by law and unreviewable by this court
  • holding that we lack jurisdiction to review “the BIA’s decision whether to reopen proceedings on its own motion pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(a)” as that decision “is committed to agency discretion by law”
  • “Because these opinions were unpublished . . . they have no precedential value.”
  • “[W]e hold that the [board]’s decision whether to reopen proceedings on its own motion pursuant to 8 C.F.R. [section] 1003.2(a) is committed to agency discretion by law” and “we lack jurisdiction to review” such decisions.

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Judges: Tjoflat and Marcus, Circuit Judges, and Vinson

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