Leslie v. Attorney General of US

How courts have described this case

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• holding that violation of a regulation concerning the right to counsel in removal proceedings “protects a fundamental statutory or constitutional right, such that we may order a new removal proceeding without a showing of prejudice”
• holding there was no need to show prejudice where IJ failed to inform immigrant of the availability of free legal services
• explaining that the INA’s “statutory and regulatory right to counsel is also derivative of the due process right to a fundamentally fair hearing”
• reviewing de novo whether IJ's failure to comply with a regulation was grounds for a new removal hearing
• “[Noncitizens] in removal proceedings are entitled to Fifth Amendment Due Process protection, which guarantees them a fundamentally fair removal hearing.”
• “The right to counsel is a particularly important procedural safeguard because of the grave consequences of removal.”

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