U.S. Law — Administrative Decisions and Case Law

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Board of Immigration Appeals Decisions (BIA)

• Attorney General and BIA Precedent Decisions.
• BIA Decisions (site includes index and precedent table) .
• Lexis (Legal > Areas of Law -By Topic > Immigration > Administrative Materials & Regulations > Agency Decisions > Immigration Precedent Decisions) (from August 29, 1940) and (Legal > Areas of Law-By Topic > Immigration > Administrative Materials & Regulations > Agency Decisions > Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) & AAU Non-Precedent Decisions).
• Westlaw (FIM-BIA) (from August 1940).
• Administrative Decisions under Immigration & Nationality Laws (KF4812 .A2).

Decisions issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Administrative Appeals Unit ("AAU"). Office of Administrative Appeals

• Lexis (Legal > Areas of Law-By Topic > Immigration > Administrative Materials & Regulations > Agency Decisions > Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) & AAU Non-Precedent Decisions).
• Westlaw (FIM-AAU) (from 1989).

OCAHO EFOIA Decisions (Immigration-related decisions issued by the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer of the US DOJ)

• OCAHO EFOIA Decisions (alphabetical by case name).
• OCAHO EFOIA Decisions (scroll to the bottom, arranged by volume).
• Lexis (Legal > Areas of Law-By Topic > Immigration > Administrative Materials & Regulations > AGency Decisions> OFfice of Chief Administrative Hearing Officer Immigration Review Decisions) (from March 1988).
• Westlaw (FIM-OCAHO) (from March 1988).

Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals Decisions

• Lexis (Legal > Areas of Law-By Topic > Immigration > Administrative Materials & Regulations > Agency Decisions > Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals Decisions) (from Feb. 1987).
• Westlaw (FIM-BALCA) (from Nov. 1987).
• Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) (Office of Administrative Law Judges).

Federal Decisions

• Lexis (Legal > Areas of Law-By Topic > Immigration > Cases > Federal Immigration Cases).
• Westlaw (FIM-CS), Supreme Court cases (FIM-SCT), Courts of Appeals Cases (FIM-CTA), and District Court cases (FIM-DCT).
• Decisions from the Supreme Court.
• Cases from US Circuit Courts of Appeals.
• Print resources.

Prepared by Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian, UC Berkeley Law Library, January 2006.