United States First Circuit

Nothing in the Convention Against Torture precludes the United States from setting reasonable time limits on the assertion of claims under the Convention in connection with an ongoing proceeding or an already effective order of deportation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/02/2001
• Published 03/02/2001

Judges

• BOUDIN, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, BOUDIN and STAHL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Pauline M. Schwartz with whom Paul Shearman Allen and Paul Shearman Allen & Associates were on consolidated brief for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ernesto H. Molina, Jr., Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, were on consolidated brief for respondent.