United States Third Circuit

In light of M.B. v. Quarantillo, 301 F.3d 109 (3d Cir. 2002), the district court had jurisdiction to review the denial of plaintiff's request for consent to a dependency hearing for "special immigrant juvenile" status. Attorney General did not abuse his discretion or act arbitrarily or capriciously in denying plaintiff's request.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/18/2002
• Decided 10/01/2003
• Published 10/01/2003

Judges

• Before ROTH, GREENBERG, Circuit Judges and WARD District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen G. Harvey, (Argued), Pepper, Hamilton, L.L.P., Philadelphia, Gerard A. Dever, Fine, Kaplan and Black, R.P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Terri J. Scadron, Senior Litigation Counsel, Brenda M. O'Malley (Argued), Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Appellees.