Thomas Mengistu v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

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• reiterating that the Chenery doctrine “forbids the lawyers for an administrative agency to defend the agency’s decision on a ground different from that stated or at least discernible in the decision itself”
• explaining that the Chenery doctrine forbids the \lawyers for an administrative agency to defend the agency's decision on a ground different from that stated or at least discernible in the decision itself.\
• remanding when BIA’s ground for denying a motion to reopen was “a non sequitur”
• discussing SEC v. Chenery Corp., 332 U.S. 194 (1947)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).