United States Ninth Circuit

The INS acted arbitrarily and in violation of due process notice requirements by refusing to reopen deportation proceedings, because its notice efforts prior to a deportation in abstentia were not reasonably calculated to reach the alien.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/11/2002
• Decided 12/06/2002
• Published 12/06/2002

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge., Before: WARDLAW and BERZON, Circuit Judges, and ISHII, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John R. Alcorn, Irvine, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edward C. Durant, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent-appellee.