502 U.S. 129 (1991) Cited 458 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that even though attorney fees are explicitly permitted by the Equal Access to Justice Act ("EAJA"), deportation proceedings are not ‘adversary adjudication’ under section 554 for which the EAJA waives sovereign immunity from attorney fees
Holding that although the Alien Contract Labor Act made it a crime to contract with or encourage any alien to migrate to the United States "to perform labor or service of any kind," a cleric who emigrated from England to serve as a pastor of a New York church and thus technically fell within the letter of the Act, was exempt from the Act's reach because of the absurd results that would follow from giving such broad meaning to words of the statute
376 U.S. 120 (1964) Cited 75 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding that "a person now an alien who was convicted of the two crimes in question while he was a naturalized citizen" is not deportable under the provision