United States Ninth Circuit

Application of Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act section 440(d), which barred Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(c) relief against deportable but not excludable aliens during the time period between two relevant decisions, violated a lawful permanent resident's equal protection rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2002
• Decided 11/05/2002
• Published 11/05/2002

Judges

• Before THOMPSON, W. FLETCHER and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James Todd Bennett, El Cerrito, CA, for the petitioner-appellee., Donald E. Keener and Alison R. Drucker, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for the respondents-appellants.