579 U.S. 176 (2016) Cited 876 times 185 Legal Analyses
Holding that " misrepresentation" about a claim's compliance with the law "must be material to the Government's payment decision in order to be actionable under the [FCA]," and that the Government's payment of "a particular claim in full despite its actual knowledge that certain requirements were violated . . . is very strong evidence that those requirements are not material"
519 U.S. 482 (1997) Cited 428 times 5 Legal Analyses
Holding that the absence of a materiality requirement in the recodified crime of knowingly making a false statement to a federally insured bank, see 18 U.S.C. § 1014, required the Court to interpret that statute as having no such element, notwithstanding the presence of that element in some of the prior false representation crimes that had been consolidated under § 1014 and a Revisor's Note explaining that the change in text was "without change of substance"
555 U.S. 511 (2009) Cited 215 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that Fedorenko's rule that voluntariness is irrelevant to culpability with respect to the DPA's persecutor bar need not be applied to the analogous INA persecutor bar
449 U.S. 490 (1981) Cited 456 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that "the Government carries a heavy burden of proof in a proceeding to divest a naturalized citizen of his citizenship" because "loss [of citizenship] can have severe and unsettling consequences"
137 S. Ct. 1918 (2017) Cited 75 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that for the offense of procurement of citizenship by fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1425, the requisite false statement is not "material" if it does not "influence the decision to approve" an application
8 U.S.C. § 1101 Cited 16,428 times 91 Legal Analyses
Finding notice and comment rulemaking is required for the agency's interim rule recognizing fear of coercive family practices as basis for refugee status
8 U.S.C. § 1231 Cited 7,836 times 13 Legal Analyses
Concluding that once petitioner's removal order was reinstated, he was no longer eligible for "relief" in the form of adjustment of status-even if he could obtain a Form I-212 waiver
Empowering the government to "institute proceedings in any district court of the United States in the judicial district in which the naturalized citizen may reside ... for the purpose of revoking and setting aside the order admitting such person to citizenship"
Punishing those who "knowingly procure or attempt to procure, contrary to law, the naturalization of any person, or documentary or other evidence of naturalization or of citizenship"