United States Ninth Circuit

Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 applies retroactively to all aliens against whom removal proceedings were not yet pending as of April 1, 1997.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/12/2000
• Decided 11/17/2000
• Published 11/17/2000

Judges

• TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BOOCHEVER, TASHIMA, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Freitas, San Diego, California, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Samuel W. Bettwy, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, California, for the respondent-appellee.