Maria Gonzalez and Daniel Sirotsky v. Gene McNary and Richard Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• “The purpose of the [CAA’s] provision permitting a spouse and child of a Cuban alien to obtain permanent residence is to promote family unity.”
• “Absent a clearly expressed legislative intent to the contrary, the plain and unambiguous language of the statute must prevail.”
• quoted with approval in Ward v. U.S. Att’y Gen., 608 F.3d 1198, 1201 (11th Cir. 2010)
• “Courts must assume that Congress intended the ordinary meaning of the words it used,- and absent a clearly expressed legislative intent to the contrary, that language is generally dispositive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).