United States Seventh Circuit

Petition seeking an order estopping the government from enforcing a deportation order obtained through the misconduct of his attorney is denied where the government's conduct of acting on information provided voluntarily to it indicating a violation of the immigration laws cannot constitute the type of egregious affirmative misconduct necessary to justify the extraordinary remedy of estoppel.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/13/2006
• Decided 08/16/2006
• Published 08/16/2006

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John P. Quall (argued), Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, Jocelyn Wright (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.