488 U.S. 204 (1988) Cited 1,738 times 10 Legal Analyses
Holding that courts will not defer to an agency's litigating position where it contradicts the agency's prior “regulations, rulings, or administrative practice”
416 U.S. 696 (1974) Cited 1,464 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that "an appellate court must apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision," unless such application would work a manifest injustice or there is statutory direction or legislative history to the contrary
511 U.S. 298 (1994) Cited 712 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that an increase in monetary liability could not be applied retroactively even though the "normative scope of Title VII's prohibition on workplace discrimination" was not altered
434 U.S. 575 (1978) Cited 1,131 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that the presumption of legislative ratification attaches where there is “an administrative or judicial interpretation of a statute,” and Congress “re-enacts statute without change”
Holding that the Ex Post Facto Clause does not apply to deportation orders because "[d]eportation, however severe its consequences, has been consistently classified as a civil rather than a criminal procedure"
347 U.S. 522 (1954) Cited 389 times 3 Legal Analyses
Holding that while aliens may receive procedural due process, the court's ability to review the substantive policy of immigration statutes is limited to review for rationality
Determining that 1 U.S.C. § 109 does not save an action that was pending at the time Congress divested the District Court of jurisdiction over that action because "Congress has not altered the nature or validity of petitioner's rights or the Government's liability but has simply reduced the number of tribunals authorized to hear and determine such rights and liabilities."
Holding that time spent in custody during the course of a hearing will be counted for purposes of rendering incarcerated alien ineligible for section 212(c) relief
21 U.S.C. § 841 Cited 94,520 times 148 Legal Analyses
In § 841 prosecutions, then, it is the fact that the doctor issued an unauthorized prescription that renders his or her conduct wrongful, not the fact of the dispensation itself.
8 U.S.C. § 1101 Cited 16,770 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