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Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No. 25-1404 (4th Cir. Apr. 17, 2025)

• illegal abduction and disappearing of individuals with withholding of removal grants based on Executive overreach; facilitate

Ebu v. USCIS, No. 24-5431 (6th Cir. Apr. 16, 2025)

• declaratory relief; naturalization with ongoing removal proceedings; INA § 318; INA § 336(b); legislative history 

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Blanco Contreras v. Bondi, No. 22-1538 (1st Cir. Apr. 9, 2025)

• exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; Wilkinson; ignoring evidence; failure to consider psychological report

Matter of Iskandarani, 29 I&N Dec. 26 (BIA 2025)

• notice of appeal deadline; oral decision; written decision; 8 C.F.R. § 1003.38(b); law addendum 

Matter of O-A-R-G-, 29 I&N Dec. 30 (BIA 2025)

• former police officers; ...

Alvarez Mendoza v. Bondi, No. 24-1112 (1st Cir. Mar. 31, 2025)

• cooperators against MS-13; Henriquez-Rivas; persecution in the U.S.; Matter of H-L-S-A-; social distinction and ocular visibility; El Salvador 

United States v. Cervenak, No. 23-3466 (6th Cir. Apr. 2, 2025) (en banc) 

• crime of violence; realistic probability test; robbery in violation of Ohio Rev. Code § 2911.02

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Delligatti v. United States, No. 23-825 (U.S. Mar. 21, 2025)

• crime of violence; force through omission; New York attempted murder; Castleman; Stokeling; meaning of “use”; limits of Borden; bodily injury; “ordinary meaning” 

Ayala Chapa v. Bondi, No. 21-60039 (5th Cir. Mar. 24, 2025)

• temporary appellate IJs; temporary Board member; Santos Zacaria; INA §  103(g)(1); Attorney General authority; ultra vires argument

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Matter of C-A-R-R-, 29 I&N Dec. 13 (BIA 2025)

• incomplete I-589; deeming asylum application abandoned for failure to include asylum declaration; cocaine admission and good moral character

Matter of Dor, 29 I&N Dec. 20 (BIA 2025)

• point of comparison of CSA and state drug schedule; INA § 237(a)(2)(B)(i); Brown; Mass. Gen. Law Ch. 94C § 32c(a); distribution of marijuana 

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Rosa v. Bondi, No. 24-1240 (1st Cir. Mar. 14, 2025)

• DHS burden to prove alienage by clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence; Woodby standard

Wilkinson v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 21-3166 (3d Cir. Mar. 11, 2025)

• extreme and exceptionally unusual hardship; substantial evidence standard of review; psychological harm without experts

Rahman v. Bondi, No. 23-3608 (6th Cir. Mar. 13, 2025)

• types of har...

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Lau v. Bondi, No. 21-6623 (2d Cir. Mar. 4, 2025)

• LPR as arriving alien applicant for admission; INA § 101(a)(13)(C)(v); CIMT; Matter of Valenzuela-Felix; parole

Penaranda v. Bondi, No. 23-6584 (2d Cir. Mar. 7, 2025)

• false testimony, good moral character, and INA § 101(f)(6); Loper Bright and star decisis; Matter of Fernandes; timely assertion of claims processing rule violation; deficient NTA; Wilkinson and non-LPR ...

Xia v. Scott, No. 23-3055 (8th Cir. Feb. 27, 2025)

• exceptions to Hague Act adoption; habitual residence; I-130 petition by adoptive parent; reasoned consideration by BIA

United States v. Parham, No. 23-4249 (4th Cir. Feb. 26, 2025)

• crime of violence; threat of sodomy accusation; physical force; sentence enhancement; robbery in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-58

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El Manyary  v. Bondi, No. 22-3102 (8th Cir. Feb. 21, 2025)

• in absentia motion to reopen; Campos-Chavez; stop-time rule; equitable tolling; sua sponte; exceptional circumstances for missing hearing; hearing notice in foreign language 

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Lapadat, et al. v. Bondi, No. 23-1745 (9th Cir. Feb. 12, 2025)

• past persecution; being shot; attempted kidnapping; death & rape threats; IJ mischaracterizing testimony; Roma; “gypsies”; pernicious maltreatment; no requirement for lasting injuries; disfavored group analysis for well founded fear; relevance of EU policy

Perez-Perez, et al. v. Bondi, No. 23-4240 (9th Cir. Feb. 10, 2025)

• FRAP 15(a)(2)(A); listing na...

Funez-Ortiz v. McHenry, No. 23-2290 (4th Cir. Feb. 4, 2025)

• CAT protection; BIA overturning IJ; under color of law; gangs wearing military uniform; acquiescence; presumption of regularity

Matter of De Jesus-Platon, 29 I&N Dec. 7 (BIA 2025)

• Cal. Pen Code § 1473.7 vacated conviction; post-conviction relief; Cal. Pen. Code § 18.5; Matter of Velasquez-Rios; CIMT; Cal. Pen Code § 422; motion to remand; procedural or ...

Matter of Baeza-Galindo, 29 I&N Dec. 1 (BIA 2025)

• single scheme of criminal conduct; two or more CIMTs; temporal limitation; INA § 237(a)(2)(A)(ii); criminal intent

 Turner v. U.S. Att’y Gen., No. 22-11207 (11th Cir. Jan. 30, 2025)

• former INA 321(a)(3); derivative naturalization; present-perfect tense; legal separation; Loper Bright; Skidmore deference

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Aguilar-Quintanilla v. McHenry, No. 24-60142 (5th Cir. Jan. 24, 2024)

• CAT protection; removal does not moot CAT challenge; ICE facilitating return; suspected gang members in El Salvador; CAT even with adverse credibility; requirement to consider affidavits; requirement to actually co...

Ndungu v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 20-2562 (3d Cir. Jan. 13, 2025) (en banc)

• history of CIMT; transactional view of res judicata; fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement, in violation of 75 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3733(a.2)(2); documents to be considered under the categorical approach; divisibility analysis; different punishments; Pennsylvania’s mens rea gap filling statute; hypotheticals 

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Akinsanya v. Garland, No. 24-1412 (1st Cir. Jan. 10, 2025)

• duty to intervene standard for government acquiesce or consent for CAT deferral; UN duty to intervene; two-pronged analysis; Boko Haram; Nigeria

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United States v. Defrance, No. 23-2409 (9th Cir. Dec. 30, 2024)

• crime of violence; “bodily injury”; MT Code Ann. § 45-5-206(1)(a); assault; emotional or verbal injury; realistic probability test

Zarzecki v. Garland, No. 21-3267 (7th Cir. Jan. 3, 2025)

• wholesale exclusion of evidence during adjustment of status discretionary analysis as legal error; de novo review of discretion

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Singh v. Garland, No. 23-2065 (9th Cir. Dec. 24, 2024)

• prior adverse credibility & motion to reopen; disregarding affidavits; corroborating evidence; falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus; Mann party; Sikh; Badal Party

Chmukh v. Garland, No. 21-1096 (9th Cir. Dec. 23, 2024)

• RCW § 69.50.4013; possession of stolen property aggravated felony; INA § 101(a)(43)(G); particularly serious crime; aggravated felony satisfying ...