United States Second Circuit

Plaintiff's petition to stay removal proceedings is denied as jurisdiction for removal was proper where plaintiff does not enjoy derivative citizenship, as he was over the age of eighteen when his parents were separated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/03/2004
• Published 08/03/2004

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before:  FEINBERG, MESKILL, JACOBS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Aileen Monahan, Law Student, BLS Legal Services Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Stacy Caplow, of counsel, Anastasia Heeger, Lindsey Jones, law students on the brief) for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David S. Rubenstein, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, N.Y. (David N. Kelley, United States Attorney, on the brief, and Sara L. Shudofsky, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), for Respondents-Appellees.