Yadvender Singh v. U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that BIA departed from an established policy, and thus exceeded its discretion, when its holding contravened its own regulation
• observing that, at least since Accardi, “the Supreme Court has held that an administrative agency must adhere to its own regulations”
• “[W]e cannot, on appeal, substitute an argument — even one the BIA made in another context — for those that the BIA actually gave to support the conclusion . . . dispute[d] on appeal.”
• “[A]n 7 administrative agency must adhere to its own regulations.”
• “[A]n administrative agency must adhere to its own regulations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).