Orabi v. Attorney General of the U.S., 738 F.3d 535, 539 (3d Cir. Jan. 2, 2014) (Because the BIA did not reach its decision based on this ground, we may not affirm the judgment on this ground.); see Sec. & Exch. Comm'n v. Chenery Corp., 332 U.S. 194, 196, 67 S.Ct. 1575, 91 L.Ed. 1995 (1947) ([A] reviewing court, in dealing with a determination or judgment which an administrative agency alone is authorized to make, must judge the propriety of such action solely by the grounds invoked by the agency.

Orabi v. Attorney General of the U.S., 738 F.3d 535, 528 (3d Cir. Jan. 2, 2014) (even after deportation, the Government was prepared to return noncitizen to the United States under certain circumstances pursuant to ICE regulations); see ICE Policy, 11061.1(2) (Absent extraordinary circumstances, if an alien who prevails before the U.S. Supreme Court or a U.S.

Injeti v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 737 F.3d 311 (4th Cir. Dec. 11, 2013) (affirming district court denial of review of USCIS denial of naturalized U.S. citizenship, where noncitizen made misrepresentations on application for LPR status and submitted false evidence in another immigration proceeding).

Silva-Trevino v. Holder, 742 F.3d 197, 200 (5th Cir. Jan. 30, 2014) (immigration judge cannot consider extrinsic evidence to determine whether an alien was convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude: We have long held that, in making this determination, judges may consider only the inherent nature of the crime, as defined in the statute, or, in the case of divisible statutes, the alien's record of conviction. Amouzadeh v. Winfrey, 467 F.3d 451, 455 (5th Cir.2006) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted); U.S. ex rel. McKenzie v. Savoretti, 200 F.2d 546, 548 (1952).

Silva-Trevino v. Holder, 742 F.3d 197 (5th Cir. Jan. 30, 2014) (court of appeals need not defer to Silva-Trevino method of analysis, because Congress spoke clearly on this issue); reversing Matter of Silva-Trevino, 24 I. & N. Dec. 687 (BIA Nov. 7, 2008).

United States v. Saucedo-Munoz, 307 F.3d 344 (5th Cir 2002) (addresses the difference in mental states between actual knowledge and deliberate indifference).

Hanna v. Holder, 740 F.3d 379 (6th Cir. Jan. 17, 2014) (adjudication under Michigan's Holmes Youthful Trainee Act (YTA), Mich. Comp. Laws 762.11"16, is a conviction under the INA, since it is more similar to a deferred adjudication for youthful offenders than a true finding of juvenile delinquency); following Uritsky v. Gonzales, 399 F.3d 728, 735 (6th Cir. 2005) (YTA adjudications are convictions under 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(48)(A), because they are not analogous to determinations of juvenile delinquency under the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act (FJDA), 18 U.S.C. 5031"42).

United States v. Tucker, 740 F.3d 1177 (8th Cir. Jan. 29, 2014) (under the Supreme Courts decision in Descamps, the court may not apply the modified categorical approach to a statute that is textually indivisible, such as the Missouri statute penalizing a walk-away escape from a half-way house, to hold the offense to be a crime of violence under the residual otherwise clause of the ACCA, 18 U.S.C. 924(e)(2)(B)(ii), because there was a guard on duty when the escape occurred); partially overruling United States v. Parks, 620 F.3d 911 (8th Cir.

The ILRC has expanded and updated the free Relief Toolkit for Defenders. The purpose of the Toolkit is to help defenders quickly identify possible immigration applications or relief for which the client might be eligible. The toolkit is one of the Notes from the California Chart and Notes.
http://www.ilrc.org/files/documents/17._relief_toolkit_jan_2014_final_0.pdf
Thanks to Kathy Brady.

Penal Code 273.5(a) has been amended to expand the list of persons who qualify as victims of this offense. It now includes the offender's fianc or fiance, or someone with whom the offender has or previously had, an engagement or dating relationship, as defined in Penal Code 243(f)(10). In Morales-Garcia v. Holder, 567 F.3d 1058, 1-64-1065 (9th Cir.