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Fourth Circuit· 7/1/2011

Sorcia v. Holder

Citations

  • 643 F.3d 117
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 13403
  • 2011 WL 2601572

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that transfer of immigration petition for review to other circuit court would not be in the interest of justice when transfer would waste the transferee court’s time
  • explaining that “a challenge to the weight attributed to certain factors relevant to immigration determinations does not present a question of law”
  • declining to transfer case under 28 U.S.C. § 1631 [ (2012) ] due, in part, to “weakness of [the appellant’s] argument on the merits”
  • stating “that a ‘petition for review [of an order of removal] shall be filed with the court of appeals for the judicial circuit in which the immigration judge completed the proceedings’” (quoting 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(2))
  • stating “that a ‘petition for review [of an order of removal] shall be filed with the court of appeals for the judicial circuit in which the immigration judge completed the proceedings’” (quoting 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(2))
  • “[A] challenge to the weight attributed to certain factors relevant to immigration determinations does not present a question of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Motz, Wynn, Gilman

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