United States Ninth Circuit

8 U.S.C. section 1231(a)(6) does not authorize the continued post-removal-period detention of an alien based on a determination that the alien's mental illness makes him specially dangerous to the community.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/06/2004
• Decided 05/03/2004
• Published 05/03/2004

Judges

• CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:, Before HUG, GRABER, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jacqueline R. Dryden,United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent-appellant., Jay W. Stansell, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Seattle, WA, for the petitioner-appellee.