Peters v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parentheses “reduced the grammatical import” of the parenthetical reference to conspiracy and attempt in the INA’s parallel deportability provision
• holding that “Congress . . . reduced the grammatical import” of statutory text “when it replaced commas . . . in the predecessor provision with the parentheses that now appear”
• explaining that cases from different circuits do not control the Fifth Circuit's construction of state and federal law
• finding that the Board was “eminently reasonable” in Beltran in holding that “the statutory references to conspiracy and attempt are illustrative without being exclusive”
• stating that “the statutory references 4 In effect, the Ninth Circuit has indicated that section 237(a)(2)(A) is broader in its coverage of crimes involving moral turpitude than section 212(a)(2)(A)(i)(I
• noting that parentheses “reduce[] the grammatical import” of the language contained therein

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).