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REQUENA-RODRIGUEZ v. PASQUARELL

No. 98-40958.

190 F.3d 299 (1999)

Reynaldo REQUENA-RODRIGUEZ, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Kenneth PASQUARELL, Immigration & Naturalization Service, District Director, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 15, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simon M. Azar-Farr, Azar-Farr & Associates, A Professional Corp., San Antonio, TX, Lucas Louis Guttentag, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Laura Anderson Smith, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Howard E. Rose, Houston, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before JONES, DUHÉ and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

Requena appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He contests the INS's conclusion that he is statutorily ineligible for discretionary relief from deportation. His case implicates two recent sets of changes to the immigration laws, both of which have precipitated a flurry of federal court decisions on retroactivity and Congress's power to limit habeas jurisdiction.

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