Ortega-Garcia v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he critical inquiry is whether the new law 10 attaches new legal consequences to an alien’s conviction.”
• “It is well-settled in this Circuit that the application of [the statutory amendments that went into effect on April 24, 1996] to an alien 9 whose offense conduct preceded . . . [that] date is not impermissibly retroactive if the effective date preceded the conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).