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· 7/12/2012

Wenfang Liu v. Timothy Mund

Citations

  • 686 F.3d 418
  • 2012 WL 2861886
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 14223

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a sponsored immigrant has no duty to mitigate damages in a suit seeking to enforce an Affidavit of Support
  • holding that the sponsored immigrant has no duty to mitigate
  • holding affirmative defense of failure to mitigate damages not available to sponsors
  • rejecting argument that the Affidavit of Support imposes on the sponsored immigrant a duty to mitigate damages
  • explaining the “right of support conferred by federal law exists apart from whatever rights [a sponsored alien] might or might not have under [state] divorce law”
  • rejecting argument that Affidavit imposes on sponsored immigrant a duty to mitigate damages

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Judges: Posner, Rovner, Wood

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