Stearns v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that it is for federal government, not state courts, to determine if “immigrant’s purpose in applying for SIJ status matches with Congress’s intent in creating that avenue of relief”
• describing \the judge's dual role with regard to . . . admission and weigh[ing]\ of evidence at a bench trial
• all immigration decisions remain in the hands of USCIS, the juvenile court is not making an immigration decision by making these factual findings
• \Family Part courts faced with a request for an SIJ predicate order should make [those] factual findings\
• “By making these preliminary factual findings, the juvenile court is not rendering an immigration determination.”
• “state courts are not charged with undertaking a determination of whether an immigrant’s purpose in applying for SIJ status matches with Congress’s intent in creating that avenue of relief”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).