United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of an application for a waiver of inadmissibility is denied where the distinction between deportable criminal aliens who have left the country and returned, and those who have stayed and applied for a waiver directly did not deny petitioner equal protection of the laws in violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/31/2007
• Decided 08/28/2007
• Published 08/28/2007

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lee A. Russo, Morgan R. Hirst, argued, Jones Day, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, David V. Bernal, Ernesto H. Molina, Jr., Ana T. Zablah, argued, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.