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· 1/25/1996

Wladyslaw Felzcerek v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Citations

  • 75 F.3d 112
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 1077

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the presumption of reliability afforded to a Form I-213 is lost when a petitioner introduces evidence contradicting statements in the form or undermining its reliability
  • noting that the Federal Rules of Evidence do not strictly apply in removal proceedings
  • noting rule that government record prepared in the ordinary course of business is presumptively reliable and admissible
  • explaining 19 that “a written public record is often more accurate than the 20 potentially hazy memory of a public official who must deal 21 with hundreds of instances of similar conduct”

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Judges: Meskill, Mahoney, Walker

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