United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of a request for a continuance and subsequent motion for reconsideration is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction where: 1) the jurisdiction-stripping provision of section 242(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) generally precludes judicial review of continuance decisions of immigration judges; and 2) selective prosecution claims by aliens are largely barred by 8 U.S.C. section 1252(g), and petitioner's claims of discrimination were insufficient to invoke the exception for outrageous cases.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/22/2007
• Decided 09/14/2007
• Published 09/14/2007

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher W. Helt (argued), Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, Karen Stewart, Mary J. Candaux (argued), Stephen J. Flynn, Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.