United States Ninth Circuit

Immigration judge may not apply the new continuous physical presence requirement, under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, to aliens who made their first Order to Show Cause hearing four days before the Act's effective date.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2000
• Decided 02/27/2001
• Published 02/27/2001

Judges

• Before:  B. FLETCHER, O'SCANNLAIN, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew Michael Knapp, Law Offices of Andrew Knapp, Anaheim, California, for the petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• David M. McConnell, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.