Mendoza-Mazariegos v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that alien’s failure to fire incompetent counsel and find a new attorney “does not justify a forfeiture of his right to counsel.”
• vacating departure order where petitioner was denied continuance to obtain counsel and “in effect, punished for the crowded docket of the immigration courts”
• finding preju- dice because “competent counsel” would have obtained the required background check, and petitioner’s failure to do so resulted in a denial of cancellation of removal
• considering whether the petitioner was “seeking to delay the proceedings in bad faith”
• “The immigration system in this country is plagued with ‘notarios’ who prey on uneducated immigrants.”
• “[T]he immigration system in this country is plagued with ‘notarios’ who prey on uneducated immigrants.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).