Decided

No. 17-459

Wescley Fonseca Pereira v. Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General

from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

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Docket Entries

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Sotomayor, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan, and Gorsuch, JJ., joined. Kennedy, J., filed a concurring opinion. Alito, J., filed a dissenting opinion.

Argued. For petitioner: David J. Zimmer, Boston, Mass. For respondent: Frederick Liu, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C.

Reply of petitioner Wescley Fonseca Pereira filed. (Distributed)

Record received from the U.S.C.A. 1st Circuit is electronic and located on PACER.

Brief of respondent Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General filed. (Distributed)

CIRCULATED

Brief amicus curiae of Former BIA Chairman & Immigration Judge Schmidt filed.

Brief amici curiae of American Immigration Lawyers Association, et al. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of National Immigrant Justice Center filed.

SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, April 23, 2018.

Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed.)

Brief of petitioner Wescley Fonseca Pereira filed.

As Rule 34.6 provides, “If the Court schedules briefing and oral argument in a case that was governed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(c) or Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 49.1(c), the parties shall submit electronic versions of all prior and subsequent filings with this Court in the case, subject to [applicable] redaction rules.” Subsequent party and amicus filings in the case should now be submitted through the Court’s electronic filing system, with any necessary redactions.

Petition GRANTED.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2018.

Reply of petitioner Wescley Fonseca Pereira filed.

Waiver of the 14-day waiting period under Rule 15.5 filed by petitioner.

Brief of respondent Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General in opposition filed.

Brief amicus curiae of American Immigration Lawyers Association filed.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including November 29, 2017.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 30, 2017)

Parties

Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General, Respondent, represented by Noel J. Francisco

Amici Curiae

American Immigration Lawyers Association, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Bradley N. Garcia

Former BIA Chairman & Immigration Judge Schmidt, Amicus Curiae, represented by Eric F. Citron

National Immigrant Justice Center, Amicus Curiae, represented by Lindsay C. Harrison

 
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