United States Ninth Circuit

8 U.S.C. section 1252(d)(1) mandates exhaustion and therefore generally bars the court, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, from reaching the merits of a legal claim not presented in administrative proceedings below.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2004
• Published 02/10/2004

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HALL, O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul A. Schelly, Los Angeles, California, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Carl H. McIntyre, Jr., and John L. Davis, United States Department of Justice, for respondent.