United States Ninth Circuit

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) amendments to section 212 of the Immigration and Nationalization Act, making it harder for judges to grant waiver from deportation, apply to cases pending when the IIRIRA was passed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2000
• Published 11/15/2000

Judges

• Before:  REINHARDT, BRUNETTI, and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James M. Byrne,Elhaam Hashemi, and Susanna I. Bogue, Byrne, Bogue & Byrne, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan Houser, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.