Yong Wong Park v. Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trafficking in counterfeit goods is an aggravated felony because it is related to the offense of counterfeiting
• holding that whether a statute of conviction is one “relating to counterfeiting” depends on whether it “seeks to discourage the act of counterfeiting” (citation and internal alteration omitted)
• stating that “there is no requirement that the [DHS] advance every conceivable basis for [removability] in the [Notice to Appear]” (alterations in original) (citation omitted)
• stating that requiring the DHS to present every possible basis for removability in the notice to appear “would needlessly complicate proceedings in the vast majority of cases” (citation omitted)
• finding Congress’s use of “relating to” “critical,” “evidenc[ing] an intent to define [the listed offenses] in [their] broadest sense”
• declining to apply “judicial estoppel” to prevent lodging of additional charge on remand after validity of original charge was called into question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).