United States First Circuit

Petition for review of order of ineligibility for cancellation of removal is denied where Congress, through its language, rendered the stop-time provision related to the commission of a crime retroactive, and thus applicable to the petitioner.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/23/2006
• Published 03/23/2006

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., TORRUELLA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and LASKER, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ilana Greenstein, with whom Harvey Kaplan, Lory Rosenberg, Maureen O'Sullivan, Jeremiah Friedman, and Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, LLP were on brief, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew C. MacLachlan, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, and Ernesto H. Molina, Jr., Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, were on brief, for respondent.