Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Lynch v. Dimaya
137 S. Ct. 31
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 2016-09-29
- Topic
- litigation
How later courts describe this case
- concluding that an alien "may bring a void for vagueness challenge to the definition of a ‘crime of violence’ in the INA” and collecting cases from other circuits permitting similar challenges
- granting certiorari on the question of whether § 16(b)’s definition of crime of violence, as incorporated in the Immigration and Nationality Act, is unconstitutionally vague
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Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted.