Granted case dismissed
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on Dec 27, 2007 at 1:21 pm
By agreement of the parties, the case of Ali v. Achim, et al. (06-1346) has been dismissed by the Supreme Court. Granted review on Sept. 25, the case involved the question whether a criminal conviction must be an “aggravated felony” to qualify as the kind of crime that bars a convicted alien from remaining in the U.S.