United States Ninth Circuit

The adoption of a rule designed to guide Immigration Judges in deciding whether to grant waivers of inadmissibility to the U.S. based on certain criminal grounds was a permissible exercise of the Attorney General's authority and the regulation may be applied to convictions that became final before the effective date of the regulation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2007
• Decided 08/24/2007
• Published 08/24/2007

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  B. FLETCHER and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and RONALD M. WHYTE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Raul E. Godinez, Law Office of Raul E. Godinez, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, and Francesco Isgro and Papu Sandu, Office of Immigration Litigation, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.