Almutairi v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.3d 996 · 2013
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
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Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (§ 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1229C (§ 240b of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Dada v. Mukasey · Azarte v. Ashcroft · Tapiero De Orejuela v. Gonzales · Viracacha v. Mukasey · Kunik v. Racine County
Most-quoted passages
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“We are less comfortable, however, with the notion that a court ought to dismiss a properly filed petition without prejudice and invite a later filing after the voluntary departure terms are sorted out.... In our view, the proper approach is for the alien to file her petition for review within 30 days of a Board order resolving everything except voluntary departure, and then for this court to retain jurisdiction but to stay proceedings on the petition until voluntary departure has been resolved one way or the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hih v. Lynch“[T]he 'final' order might do no more than establish that the alien is removable .... [V]oluntary departure ... has no effect at all on the removability of the alien-it affects only the manner of [his] exit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Camick v. Sessions“government or to a nongovernmental entity that the government is unable or unwilling to control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.