560 U.S. 438 (2010) Cited 279 times 6 Legal Analyses
Holding that because SORNA "sets forth [its] travel requirement in the present tense," the statute's criminal penalties do not apply to a person whose interstate travel predated enactment
423 U.S. 212 (1976) Cited 270 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that a firearm "has been" shipped in interstate commerce where the defendant purchased the weapon from a vendor within his state of Kentucky, but the weapon was manufactured in Massachusetts, shipped to North Carolina, and then received by the vendor in Kentucky
In Martinez-Perez v. Barr, 947 F.3d 1273 (10th Cir. 2020), we held that a statutorily defective NTA does not deprive the IJ of jurisdiction because § 1229(a) is a claim-processing rule, not a jurisdiction-conferring requirement.
8 U.S.C. § 1229b Cited 5,158 times 24 Legal Analyses
Granting the Attorney General discretion to cancel the removal of an alien who has “been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a ... parent who is ... a United States citizen”
8 C.F.R. § 1240.8 Cited 310 times 4 Legal Analyses
Applying "clearly and beyond doubt" burden to "proceedings commenced upon a respondent's arrival" or "[a]liens present in the United States without being admitted"