United States Ninth Circuit

In an immigration case involving an alien who overstayed her tourist visa and then paid for the purchase of a fraudulent alien registration card manufactured by a corrupt federal immigration employee, alien's petition for review of a final order of removal and a denial of a motion to reopen is denied primarily as petitioner could not bar the government from removing her on the grounds that the government was estopped from asserting the green card was bogus.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2007
• Decided 03/04/2008
• Published 03/04/2008

Judges

• Before:  D.W. NELSON and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges, and LOUIS F. OBERDORFER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alex Park, Santa Clara, CA, for the petitioner., William Roppolo, Liquita Thompson, Celina Joachim, Jordan Faykus, Kendra Massumi, Baker & McKenzie LPP, Miami, FL, Pro Bono Amicus Curiae, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Keisler, James Grimes, Sarah Maloney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.