# Pankajkumar S. Patel v. U.S. Attorney General

> Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · March 6, 2019 · 917 F.3d 1319

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9888105

## Case

- **Full name:** Pankajkumar S. PATEL, Jyotsnaben P. Patel, Nishantkumar Patel, Petitioners, v. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent.
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- **Decided:** March 6, 2019
- **Citations:** 917 F.3d 1319
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Newsom
- **Judges:** Tjoflat, Marcus, Newsom
- **Nature of suit:** NEW
- **Cited by:** 11 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Vacated in part by Pankajkumar Patel v. U.S. Attorney General, 971 F.3d 1258 (2020).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9888105

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that the plain meaning rule of statutory interpretation and its limited exceptions restrict the policy predilections of judges who are charged with enforcing legislative decrees rather than their independent political perspectives

## Opinion text

NEWSOM, Circuit Judge, concurring:
I concur in the judgment, and I join in the Court's opinion except for footnotes 4 and 5, which seem to me unnecessary to the resolution of the case.

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