Watson ex rel. D.J.W.B. v. Hortman

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “issues about the meaning of this clause” have “been the subject of extensive litigation in the federal courts”
• noting that ”[t]he BIA’s decisions are particularly unworthy of deference, in that West contained little reasoning in support of its conclusion”
• “The BIA’s decisions are particularly unworthy of deference, in that West contained little reasoning in support of its conclusion on this point, and Kotliar none.”
• “[t]he word ‘released’ is itself a word of limitation,” and the phrase “when ... released” may also connote a condition that must occur before the Attorney General’s authority ripens
• “[P]etition[er] raises two issues about the meaning of this clause: what the word “when’ means, and what the word ‘released’ means. The first issue has been the subject of extensive litigation in the federal courts; the second, less so.”
• labeling competing constructions and collecting cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).