United States Ninth Circuit

The reinstatement procedures established by the Attorney General at 8 C.F.R. section 241.8, which gives an immigration officer the authority to determine the admissibility of an alien, violates the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2005
• Decided 11/18/2004
• Published 11/18/2004

Judges

• Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, HARRY PREGERSON, STEPHEN REINHARDT, ALEX KOZINSKI, PAMELA ANN RYMER, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, SUSAN P. GRABER, WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, RONALD M. GOULD and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Pauw, Gibbs Houston Pauw, Seattle, WA, for the petitioner., Trina A. Realmuto and Nadine K. Wettstein, American Immigration Law Foundation, Washington, DC, as amici curiae in support of the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division;  Jonathan F. Cohn, Deputy Assistant Attorney General;  Donald E. Keener, Deputy Director, Office of Immigration Litigation;  John Andre, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the respondent.