Niz-Chavez v. Garland

Niz-Chavez v. Garland
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 9, 2020
Decided April 29, 2021
Full case nameAgusto Niz-Chavez, Petitioner v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General
Docket no.19-863
Citations593 U.S. 155 (more)
141 S. Ct. 1474
209 L. Ed. 2d 433
Case history
Prior
  • Niz-Chavez v. Barr, 789 F. App'x 523 (6th Cir. 2019)
  • Cert. granted, Niz-Chavez v. Barr, 141 S. Ct. 84 (2020)
Holding
"A notice to appear sufficient to trigger the IIRIRA's stop-time rule is a single document containing all the information about an individual's removal hearing specified in §1229(a)(1)."[1]: 1 
Court membership
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Associate Justices
Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer
Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch
Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinions
MajorityGorsuch, joined by Thomas, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett
DissentKavanaugh, joined by Roberts, Alito
Laws applied
IIRIRA, 8 U.S.C. § 1229

Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 593 U.S. 155 (2021), was an immigration decision by the United States Supreme Court. In a 6–3 decision authored by Neil Gorsuch, the Court ruled against the federal government, holding that deportation hearing notices need to be in a single document. Although a highly technical case, the decision received attention for being predicated on the single-letter word a.

  1. ^ "NIZ-CHAVEZ v. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL" (PDF). Supreme Court of the United States. April 29, 2021. Syllabus. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 29, 2021. Retrieved October 18, 2021.