United States Seventh Circuit

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) reinstatement provision, 8 U.S.C. section 1231(a)(5), may not be applied retroactively to aliens who reentered the United States and applied for discretionary relief prior to IIRIRA's effective date.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/24/2004
• Decided 01/26/2005
• Published 01/26/2005

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Susan Compernolle (Argued), Rubman & Compernolle, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• George P. Katsivalis, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Papu Sandhu (Argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.