Zinman v. Church Charity Foundation of Long Island

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “Congress inserted the words ‘in the opinion of’ . . . with the manifest intention of putting borderline adverse determinations beyond the reach of judicial review”
• suggesting that although the receipt of “individualized public support to the needy” could render someone a public charge, acceptance of “essentially supplementary benefits, directed to the general welfare of the public as a whole,” should not
• observing that in Matter of B-, the “words ‘public charge’ had their ordinary meaning, that is to say, a money charge upon or an expense to the public for support and care, the alien being destitute” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).