Zhen-Hua Gao v. Carol A. Jenifer, District Director Immigration & Naturalization Service (Detroit District)

How courts have described this case

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• discussing a case arising in Michigan and stating: “As we held above, the state juvenile court had jurisdiction to declare Gao[, the child alien,] dependent and to determine that sending him back to China would not be in his best interest.”
• “[S]tate juvenile courts generally have jurisdiction over immigrant juveniles within their territory, whether legally admitted into the United States or not”
• departure from INS policies is abuse of discretion
• departure from INS policies is abuse of discretion
• SIJ status confers “a meaningful legal benefit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).