Oyenike Alaka v. Attorney General of the United States Secretary of Department of Homeland Security

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the loss amount relevant to [an alien’s] aggravated felony determination is ... the loss suffered by the victim of the count to which [the alien] pled guilty”
• recognizing that discretion has been “‘specified’ sufficiently to bar our review when” the statute states that the official “‘may’ (rather than ‘shall’)” undertake the action
• describing requirement that loss be tethered to actual offense of conviction, not general or acquitted conduct
• “Perhaps the most fundamental principle of statutory construction is that words in a statute must be given their ordinary meaning whenever possible.”
• “Perhaps the most fundamental principle of statutory construction is that words in a statute must be given their ordinary meaning whenever possible.”
• “We do not have jurisdiction to review the merits of the IJ‟s factual conclusion[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).