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· 8/16/2023

People v. Super. Ct. (Mitchell)

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that immigrants stand “on an equal footing with citizens” under the Constitution with respect to protection of personal liberty
  • concluding that immigrants stand “on an equal footing with citizens” under the Constitution with respect to protection of personal liberty
  • holding that “[d]eportation, however severe its consequences, has been consistently classified as a civil rather than a criminal procedure”
  • holding that the State Department’s designation of the plaintiff as inadmissible under Section 7031(c), codified in a statutory note to 8 U.S.C. § 1182, was nonreviewable
  • holding that administrative expediency must give way to protection of fundamental rights
  • explaining that “the conduct of foreign relations ... [is] so exclusively entrusted to the political branches of government as to be largely immune from judicial inquiry or interference”

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