Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr

Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr
Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 9, 2019; Decided March 23, 2020
Full case name	Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr
Docket no.	18-776
Citations	589 U.S. ___ (more) 140 S. Ct. 1062; 206 L. Ed. 2d 271
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Sessions, 737 F. App'x 230 (5th Cir. 2018); Ovalles v. Holder, 577 F.3d 288 (5th Cir. 2009); Ovalles v. Sessions, 741 F. App'x 259 (5th Cir. 2018); Cert. granted, 139 S. Ct. 2766 (2019);
Court membership
	Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito; Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan; Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
Majority	Breyer, joined by Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, and Roberts
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Alito

Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr, 589 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case, the question before the Court was “Is a request for equitable tolling, as it applies to statutory motions to reopen, judicially reviewable as a question of law?“^[1]

Decision

In a 7-2 decision written by Justice Breyer, the court ruled that the request for equitable tolling was judicially reviewable as a question of law, the court vacated and remanded the case.^[2]

Dissent

References

^ "Court documets" (PDF). www.supremecourt.gov. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
^ Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr, No. 18-776, 589 U.S. ___ (2020).

External links

Text of Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr, No. 18-776, 589 U.S. ___ (2020) is available from: Justia Oyez (oral argument audio) Supreme Court (slip opinion)

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[1] "Court documets" (PDF). www.supremecourt.gov. Retrieved 2020-07-14.

[2] Guerrero-Lasprilla v. Barr, No. 18-776, 589 U.S. ___ (2020).

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