United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of a removal order on grounds that principles of res judicata barred the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") from relitigating his removal based on a claim which could have been raised in his previous removal proceeding is denied where petitioner's second suit did not involve the same claim or nucleus of operative fact as the first.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2008
• Published 05/30/2008

Judges

• WESLEY, Circuit Judge:, Before: B.D. PARKER, WESLEY, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George G. Kouros, Sheehan & Reeve, New Haven, CT, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sandra S. Glover, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut (Lisa E. Perkins, on the brief), for Kevin J. O'Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT, for Respondents-Appellees.