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VARTELAS v. HOLDER

No. 10-1211.

132 S.Ct. 1479 (2012)

182 L.Ed.2d 473

Panagis VARTELAS, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 28, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanos Bibas for Petitioner.

Eric D. Miller , San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. , Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Edwin S. Kneedler , Deputy Solicitor General, Eric D. Miller , Assistant to the Solicitor General, Donald E. Keener , John W. Blakeley , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Stephanos Bibas , Counsel of Record, James A. Feldman , Nancy Bregstein Gordon , Amy Wax , University of Pennsylvania, Law School, Philadelphia, PA, Andrew K. Chow , Neil A. Weinrib & Associates, New York, NY, Stephen B. Kinnaird , Rishi N. Sharma , Matthew T. Crossman , Michael R. Miller , Paul Hastings LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Justice GINSBURG delivered the opinion of the Court.

Panagis Vartelas, a native of Greece, became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 1989. He pleaded guilty to a felony (conspiring to make a counterfeit security) in 1994, and served a prison sentence of four months for that offense. Vartelas traveled to Greece in 2003 to visit his parents. On his return to the United States a week later, he was treated as an inadmissible alien and placed in removal...

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