Norman A. Johnson v. John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• finding 4 that where the substance of petitioner’s argument was raised below, petitioner exhausted the 5 claim
• noting that res judicata applies in immigra- tion proceedings
• “The BIA is required to follow the 14 law, including . . . BIA precedents . . . .”
• “[I]t is no answer to a claim of [claim preclusion] . . . that no decision was reached previously on the newly-asserted claims.”
• The agency “acts arbitrarily and unlawfully when it simply ignores established holdings.”
• “That res judicata does sometimes apply in immigration proceedings is unquestionable.”

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