Legal Opinion
Fierro v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 22, 1999No. CIV. A. 99-11556-WGYPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
YOUNG, Chief Judge.
I. Introduction
Consider this famous exchange from Robert Bolt’s, A Man For All Seasons: Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get to the Devil?
Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man’s laws, not God’s — and if you cut them down — and you’re just the man to do it — d’you really think you…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination CommitteeSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
- In Re BurrusSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Perceira Goncalves v. INSCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1998
- Montana v. KennedySupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Wolde Wallace v. RenoCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1999
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Miguel Noel Fierro v. Janet Reno, Attorney General, Miguel Noel Fierro v. Janet Reno, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2000
- Miara v. First Allmerica Financial Life InsuranceDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2005
- Natale v. Pfizer, Inc.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 2005
- Fierro v. INSCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2000