MELLOULI v. LYNCH

No. 13-1034.

135 S.Ct. 1980 (2015)

Moones MELLOULI, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Laramore , Indianapolis, IN, for Petitioner.

Rachel P. Kovner , for Respondent.

Jon Laramore , Counsel of Record, D. Lucetta Pope , Daniel E. Pulliam , Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Indianapolis, IN, for Petitioner.

Katherine Evans , Benjamin Casper , University of Minnesota Law School Center for New Americans, Minneapolis, MN, Michael Sharma-Crawford , Sharma-Crawford, Attys. at Law, LLC, Kansas City, MO, John Keller , Sheila Stuhlman , Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, for Petitioner.

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. , Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Joyce R. Branda , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Edwin S. Kneedler , Deputy Solicitor General, Rachel P. Kovner , Assistant to the Solicitor General, Donald E. Keener , W. Manning Evans , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.


This case requires us to decide how immigration judges should apply a deportation (removal) provision, defined with reference to federal drug laws, to an alien convicted of a state drug-paraphernalia misdemeanor.

Lawful permanent resident Moones Mellouli, in 2010, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor...

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