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Supreme Court· 4/22/2009

Nken v. Holder

Citations

  • 556 U.S. 418
  • 129 S. Ct. 1749
  • 173 L. Ed. 2d 550
  • 2009 U.S. LEXIS 3121

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 traditional equitable power to grant a stay pending review is not affected by statutory restriction of injunction power
  • recognizing that the “ordinary processes of administration and judicial review” best ensure “careful review and a meaningful decision” (citation omitted)
  • holding that, in the context of a stay, assessing the harm to the opposing party and weighing the public interest “merge when the Government is the opposing party”
  • holding that the balance of equities and public interest considerations “merge when the Government is the opposing party”
  • holding that, in the context of stay, the balance-of-equity and public-interest prongs “merge when the Government is the opposing party”
  • holding that, in the context of stay, the balance-of-equity and public-interest prongs \merge when the Government is the opposing party\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Roberts, Kennedy, Scalia, Alito, Thomas

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Cites

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