Restrepo v. Attorney General of US

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Congress did not plainly and unambiguously indicate in the INA what it meant by the generic offense of “sexual abuse of a minor”
• concluding that the undefined phrase “sexual abuse of a minor” in § 1101(a)(43)(A) was “most assuredly not clear and unambiguous”
• asserting that “Congress may have intended for the BIA to utilize its expertise to define the phrase” sexual abuse of a minor
• noting that the INA “contains no definition of this phrase”
• according significance to the absence of a cross-reference when interpreting a statute
• “The question of whether an alien’s offense constitutes an aggravated felony is reviewed de novo as it implicates a purely legal question that governs the appellate court’s jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).