Perez Santana v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he provision unambiguously confers upon ‘an alien’ the authority and the right to file a motion to reopen, in language that admits of no exceptions.”
• “[T]he postdeparture bar [8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(d)] cannot be used to abrogate a noncitizen’s statutory right to file a motion to reopen.”
• “This provision shows that Congress knew how to impose a geographic restriction when it wanted to, and further suggests that the statute’s general provisions do not contain such a limitation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).