United States Ninth Circuit

The reinstatement provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), section 241(a)(5), is not impermissibly retroactive when applied to deportation orders that occurred before the passage of the 1996 revisions to the INA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/09/2004
• Decided 08/13/2004
• Published 08/13/2004

Judges

• D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before D.W. NELSON, FISHER, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matt Adams (argued), Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Granger, Washington, for the petitioner., Soren M. Rottman, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Granger, Washington, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• James A. Hunolt, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent., Anthony P. Nicastro (argued), Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.