Niz-Chavez v. Garland
| Niz-Chavez v. Garland | |
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| Argued November 9, 2020 Decided April 29, 2021 | |
| Full case name | Agusto Niz-Chavez, Petitioner v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
| Docket no. | 19-863 |
| Citations | 593 U.S. 155 (more) 141 S. Ct. 1474 209 L. Ed. 2d 433 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | |
| Holding | |
| "A notice to appear sufficient to trigger the IIRIRA's stop-time rule is a single document containing all the information about an individual's removal hearing specified in §1229(a)(1).": 1 | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Gorsuch, joined by Thomas, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett |
| Dissent | Kavanaugh, joined by Roberts, Alito |
| Laws applied | |
| IIRIRA, 8 U.S.C. § 1229 | |
Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 593 U.S. 155 (2021), was an immigration decision by the United States Supreme Court. In a 6–3 decision authored by Neil Gorsuch, the Court ruled against the federal government, holding that deportation hearing notices need to be in a single document. Although a highly technical case, the decision received attention for being predicated on the single-letter word a.