United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of habeas corpus petition challenging the constitutionality of Section 440(d) of AEDPA, which eliminated the Attorney General's discretionary authority to grant waiver of deportation to an alien convicted of an aggravated felony, as applied to an alien whose offense conduct predated AEDPA's effective date, is affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/09/2003
• Published 12/09/2003

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge., Before:  FEINBERG, KEARSE, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew L. Guadagno, New York, New York (Kerry William Breetz, Jules E. Coven, Breetz & Coven, New York, New York, on the brief), for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kristen Chapman, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, New York (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Varuni Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, New York, on the brief), for Respondents-Appellees.