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· 8/10/1995

Peter Frampton Akindemowo v. U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service

Citations

  • 61 F.3d 282
  • 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 21629
  • 1995 WL 470544

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that, \deference to an agency’s interpretation is particularly apropos here because the immigration laws ‘have produced a complex and highly regulatory program’ entailing policy determinations that fall within the ambit of agency expertise.’\
  • observing that the Board of Immigration Appeals continued to apply its interpretation of a deportation statute in all circuits except those that had rejected the Board's interpretation
  • endorsing BIA’s narrow reading and applying it to immediately successive uses of bad checks in two stores on a single visit to a shopping mall
  • finding fraudulent checks made out to separate victims weighed against single scheme
  • noting the Board has “unfailingly” followed Matter of D-
  • noting the Board has “unfailingly” followed Matter of D-

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Judges: Hamilton, Luttig, Williams

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