Li Lin v. Matthew J. Ellis, and The Washington University in Saint Louis

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “a court may deny a motion to amend a complaint when the amendment would be futile.”
• holding that the doctrine applies to visa refusals
• concerning a section 221(g) refusal for applicants who consular officials were suspicious “were not who they said they were” and whose applications were sent to the USCIS for revocation
• characterizing consular nonreviewability as a “no-trespass rule” generally precluding judicial review
• “We have no authority to second guess the visa decisions of the American consulate in Yemen and thus leave those decisions in place.”
• “American residents—whether citizens or legal residents—do not have a constitutional right to require the National Government to admit noncitizen family members into the country.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).