Shibeshi Lema v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service John Ashcroft, Attorney General Robert S. Coleman, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding petitioner failed to cooperate because he provided no affidavits, made no requests for travel documents, did not contact the consulate, and failed to produce documents to INS
• finding petitioner failed to cooperate because he provided no affidavits, made no requests for travel documents, did not contact the consulate, and failed to produce documents to INS
• “[R]emovable aliens should not be rewarded with release into the United States for their bad behavior in refusing to assist officials to effect their removal.” (citation modified)
• alien refused to “cooperate fully and honestly with officials to secure travel documents”
• alien refused to “cooperate fully and honestly with officials to secure travel documents”
• “We conclude that 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(1)(C) . . . authorizes the INS’s continued detention of a removable alien so long as the alien fails to cooperate fully and honestly with officials to obtain travel documents.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).