Puello v. Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding 3 that “‘conviction’ refers to the date on which judgment is entered on the docket, 4 not the date on which a court accepts a guilty plea”
• “[S]tatutory analysis necessarily begins with the plain meaning of a law’s text and, absent ambiguity, will generally end there.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[S]tatutory analysis necessarily begins with the plain meaning of a law’s text and, absent ambiguity, will generally end there.”
• “‘[A] statute must, if reasonably possible, be construed in a way that will give force and effect to each of its provisions rather than render some of them meaningless.’”
• “‘[A] statute must, if reasonably possible, be construed in a way that will give force and effect to each of its provisions rather than render some of them meaningless.’”
• “‘[A] statute must, if reasonably possible, be construed in a way that will give force and effect to each of its provisions rather than render some of them meaningless.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).