Luis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the court had “no jurisdiction” to review the decision of the BIA not to reopen removal proceedings sua sponte because “the decision of the BIA whether to invoke its sua sponte authority is committed to its unfettered discretion.”
• holding that under Heckler the court lacked juris- diction to review the BIA’s refusal to reopen sua sponte because “[t]here are no guidelines or standards which dictate how and when the BIA should invoke its sua sponte power”
• rejecting on jurisdictional grounds an argument not first made to the BIA
• “There are no guidelines or standards which dictate how and when the BIA should invoke its sua sponte power under [section 1003.2(a) J.”
• “[I]f no judicially manageable standards are available for judging how and when an agency should exercise its discretion, then it is impossible to evaluate agency action for ‘abuse of discretion.’” (alteration in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

62 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Azmond Ali v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
  Second Circuit· 2006-05-12· cited 1,744×
• Tigran Ekimian Rouzan Nagapetian Avetis Hekimian v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-09-12· cited 751×
• Sead Pilica v. John Ashcroft
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-11-15· cited 384×
• Kuang-Te Wang v. Ashcroft
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-07-31· cited 334×
• Efrain Modesto Calle-Vujiles v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
  Third Circuit· 2003-03-05· cited 261×
• Carlos Huicochea-Gomez and Margot Huicochea-Reza v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-01-02· cited 215×
• Elizabeth Lona v. William Barr
  Ninth Circuit· 2020-05-15· cited 187×
• Yuri Harchenko, Oleksandr Harchenko, and Tetiana Harchenko v. Immigration and Naturalization Service John Ashcroft, Attorney General
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-07-30· cited 179×
• Mosere v. Mukasey
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-01-12· cited 175×
• Lenis v. U.S. Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-05-05· cited 157×
• Enriquez-Alvarado v. Ashcroft
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-05-19· cited 156×
• Mickeviciute v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-04-28· cited 120×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 2005-01-25· cited 115×
• Tamenut v. Mukasey
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-03-11· cited 106×
• Barry v. Mukasey
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-02-25· cited 95×
• Belay-Gebru v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-03-26· cited 89×
• Diaz-Covarrubias v. Mukasey
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-01-09· cited 71×
• Chehazeh v. Attorney General of United States
  Third Circuit· 2012-01-11· cited 69×
• Kap Sun Bukta v. U.S. Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-07-05· cited 65×
• Prado v. Reno
  First Circuit· 1999-12-08· cited 59×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Heckler v. Chaney
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 2,484×
• Valli Kandiah Ravindran v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 1992-09-30· cited 163×
• Tesfaye Aberra Gebremichael v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 1993-11-23· cited 149×
• Edith Stewart v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-06-23· cited 145×
• Bernal-Vallejo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 1999-11-02· cited 127×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-10-27· cited 102×
• Juan ANTONIO-CRUZ, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-07-02· cited 91×
• Carter v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  First Circuit· 1996-07-30· cited 23×