United States Eighth Circuit

Section 241(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, enacted as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, may be applied to expedite all reinstatement proceedings commenced prior to enactment of the section, but the substantive defenses to removal eliminated by it may not be retroactively denied to aliens who illegally reentered the U.S. prior to enactment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/13/2002
• Published 02/13/2002

Judges

• LOKEN, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and BOGUE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Froman, argued, San Diego, CA, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Papu Sandhu, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC (Quynh Vu, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, on the brief), for respondent.