United States Ninth Circuit

The REAL ID Act of 2005 gives aliens whose removal order became final before the REAL ID Act a reasonable opportunity to obtain judicial review. Aliens whose petitions were rendered untimely by the Act had a grace period of no more than 30 days from the effective date of the Act in which to seek such review.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/10/2008
• Decided 07/23/2008
• Published 07/23/2008

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, JOHN T. NOONAN, JR. and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Jobe (argued) and Fatma Marouf, Law Offices of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia A. Smith (argued), Office of Immigration Litigation, Emily Anne Radford and Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.