Oyeniran v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that collateral estoppel applies in the context of immigration proceedings
• noting that the “introduction of new evidence . . . is not an exception” to issue preclusion
• explaining that the question of whether petitioner’s father was tortured in Nigeria was “actually litigated” because petitioner presented evidence on the issue, the IJ specifically found so, and the government challenged that claim “[a]t every stage of the administrative proceedings”
• applying abuse of discretion standard in reviewing a motion to reopen
• “The introduction of new evidence on a matter previously re- solved is not an exception to collateral estoppel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).