United States Ninth Circuit

Appellant cannot challenge denial of a request for a waiver of deportation via a 28 U.S.C. section 2241 petition for habeas corpus, absent allegations of constitutional or statutory error in the removal process.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/16/2001
• Decided 07/31/2002
• Published 07/31/2002

Judges

• Before B. FLETCHER, D.W. NELSON, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Victor D. Nieblas (argued), Law Office of Victor D. Nieblas Pradis, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cindy S. Ferrier (argued), United States Department of Justice, Appearances only by David W. Ogden, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Kristen A. Chapman, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, and John P. Moran, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for the respondents-appellees.