Velasco-Giron v. Holder

Petition for certiorari denied on May 4, 2015

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
14-745	7th Cir.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	OT 2014

Issue: (1) Whether courts should defer to published Board of Immigration Appeals case law construing the generic crime of "sexual abuse of a minor" through an ad hoc process that employs a federal civil statute as a "guide"; and (2) whether a state misdemeanor offense for sexual intercourse with an individual under the age of eighteen " which captures activity not criminalized federally or in the vast majority of states, and may be punished with unsupervised probation " is an "aggravated felony" as "sexual abuse of a minor."

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Petition of the day (Maureen Johnston, April 21, 2015)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
12/23/2014	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 23, 2015)
01/13/2015	Order extending time to file response to petition to and including February 23, 2015.
02/18/2015	Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including March 25, 2015.
03/26/2015	Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including April 1, 2015.
04/01/2015	Brief of respondent Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General filed.
04/15/2015	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 1, 2015.
04/15/2015	Reply brief of petitioner filed. (Distributed)
05/04/2015	Petition DENIED.