Mario Montes-Lopez v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that this court may not decide a claim unless the BIA has done so in the first instance (citing I.N.S. v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16 (2002) (per curiam))
• holding that this court may not decide a claim unless the BIA has done so in the first instance (citing I.N.S. v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam))
• “[W]e are not permitted to decide a claim that the immigration court has not considered in the first instance.”
• “[W]e are not permitted to decide a claim that the immigration court has not considered in the first instance.”
• “[W]e are not permitted to decide a claim that the immigration court has not considered in the first instance.”
• “[W]e are not permitted to decide a claim that the immigration court has not considered in the first instance. . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).