United States Fourth Circuit

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act's gatekeeper provision 8 U.S.C. section 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) addressing courts' jurisdiction to review decisions on cancellation of removal, bars review only of discretionary decisions on the merits of the enumerated sections.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/08/2005
• Published 12/08/2005

Judges

• Before KING and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and R. BRYAN HARWELL, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jim Tom Haynes, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner.   Michael John Frank, United States Department of Justice, Office of Legal Policy, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.   ON BRIEF:  Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, M. JocelynLopez Wright, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.