United States Ninth Circuit

Summary dismissal of an appeal was improper where, despite petitioners' failure to file a brief, their articulated reasons for appealing a ruling (in a Notice of Appeal) contained adequate specificity to provide the Board of Immigration Appeals with requisite notice.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/10/2002
• Decided 08/20/2002
• Published 08/20/2002

Judges

• Before LAY,FERGUSON and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Veronica L. Burris Valentine, Las Vegas, NV;  Charles E. Nichol, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick Shen, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.