Legal Opinion
Juana Estela Corniel-Rodriguez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 22, 1976No. 765, Docket 75-4096PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:
It is, as Justice Cardozo stated long ago, a “fundamental and unquestioned” principle of our jurisprudence that “no one shall be permitted to . take advantage of his own wrong.” R. H. Stearns Co. v. United States, 291 U.S. 54, 61-62, 54 S.Ct. 325, 328, 78 L.Ed. 647, 653 (1934). We are called upon to decide whether this venerable maxim should be invoked against the United States, to bar the deportation of a young and naive alien whose inadvertent violation of one sub-section of the Immigration & Nationality Act 1 was occasioned by the affirmative misconduct of…
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