United States Ninth Circuit

The Board of Immigration Appeals' "streamlining process," which bypasses traditional three-judge review, does not violate the due process rights of aliens, and petitioner's challenge to a specific decision to streamline is not reviewable as it is based on an alleged error in a discretionary hardship determination.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/06/2003
• Decided 07/14/2003
• Published 07/14/2003

Judges

• Before T.G. NELSON, SILVERMAN, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Susan E. Hill, Law Offices of Susan E. Hill, Los Angeles, CA, for the Petitioners., Mary K. Kenney, Nadine K. Wettstein, and Beth Werlin, American Immigration Law Foundation, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae American Immigration Law Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Julia K. Doig, and Audrey B. Hemesath, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the Respondent.