United States Ninth Circuit

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) section 301(a)(13) abrogated the old INA section 101(a)(13) and the Fleuti doctrine, but the new law cannot be applied retroactively to lawful permanent resident who acted in reasonable reliance on the old law prior to IIRIRA's effective date.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/12/2007
• Decided 08/28/2007
• Published 08/28/2007

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before: PROCTER HUG, JR. and WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and H. RUSSEL HOLLAND, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Zachary Miller Nightingale, Beth Feinberg, Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Allen W. Hausman, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.