Nabih Yacoub Tablie v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, and U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services

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• concluding that 8 a proffered construction’s reduction of statutory language 9 to surplusage was “fatal”
• “We are obliged to give effect, if possible, to every clause and word of a statute, and to render none superfluous.” (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• “[U]nder § 240A(d)(1) Tablie’s period of continuous residence ended in 1984 when he lied on his application for permanent residence, after only five years in the country. Tablie would therefore be ineligible for cancellation of removal under the new stop-time rule.”
• finding § 1229b(d)(1)(B) to be retroactive and denying relief

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