Niz-Chavez v. Garland

Niz-Chavez v. Garland
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 9, 2020 Decided April 29, 2021
Full case name	Agusto Niz-Chavez, Petitioner v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General
Docket no.	19-863
Citations	593 U.S. 155 (more) 141 S. Ct. 1474 209 L. Ed. 2d 433
Case history
Prior	Niz-Chavez v. Barr, 789 F. App'x 523 (6th Cir. 2019) Cert. granted, Niz-Chavez v. Barr, 141 S. Ct. 84 (2020)
Holding
"A notice to appear sufficient to trigger the IIRIRA's stop-time rule is a single document containing all the information about an individual's removal hearing specified in §1229(a)(1)."[1]: 1
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinions
Majority	Gorsuch, joined by Thomas, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett
Dissent	Kavanaugh, joined by Roberts, Alito
Laws applied
IIRIRA, 8 U.S.C. § 1229

Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 593 U.S. 155 (2021), was an immigration decision by the United States Supreme Court. In a 6–3 decision authored by Neil Gorsuch, the Court ruled against the federal government, holding that deportation hearing notices need to be in a single document. Although a highly technical case, the decision received attention for being predicated on the single-letter word a.