Topic: facially legitimate and bona fide reason · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 11 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Bustamante v. Mukasey.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 Bustamante v. Mukasey Anchor
ca9 · 2008
green “facially legitimate and bona fide reason” 4
2 Victoria Rosales Jesus Rosales Rebecca Rosales v. United States
ca9 · 1987
green “the intertwined jurisdictional facts must be resolved at trial by the trier of fact.” 3
3 Shelley Sommatino v. United States
ca9 · 2001
green “any alien who at any time knowingly has encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided any other alien to enter or to try to enter the united states in violation of law is inadmissible.” 2
4 Bustamante v. Mukasey
ca9 · 2008
green “a highly constrained review solely to determine whether the consular official acted on the basis of a facially legitimate and bona fide reason.” 2

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