United States First Circuit

Deportation proceedings do not officially start until the INS serves alien with a Notice to Appear, not when it issues an order to show cause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/07/2000
• Decided 11/28/2000
• Published 11/30/2000

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lidia M. Sanchez, with whom Cooper & Sanchez was on brief, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul D. Kovac, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.