Joseph Patrick DOHERTY, Petitioner,
v.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 19, 1990.
Decided June 29, 1990.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mary Boresz Pike, New York City (Somerstein & Pike, Arthur C. Helton, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, of counsel), for petitioner.
Noel Anne Ferris, New York City, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty. (Otto G. Obermaier, U.S. Atty. S.D. New York, Edward T. Fergusson, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., of counsel), for respondent.
Carolyn Patty Blum, Berkeley, Cal. (Asylum Appeals Clinic, Boalt Hall Law School, Berkeley, Cal., Kevin R. Johnson, King Hall School of Law, Davis, Cal., Lynn Bregman, John K. Lapiana, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., of counsel, Lauren Cox-Pursley, Ann Lucas, Luis Moran, Barbara Schussman, Kathleen Soltero, Student Counsel, on the Brief), for Alphonse D'Amato, Christopher J. Dodd, John F. Kerry, Orrin G. Hatch, Members of the United States Senate, Gary L. Ackerman, Helen Delich Bentley, Robert A. Borski, Albert G. Bustamante, Thomas R. Carper, William J. Coyne, Ronald V. Dellums, Thomas J. Downey, Bernard J. Dwyer, Eliot L. Engel, Walter E. Fauntroy, Vic Fazio, Hamilton Fish, Jr., Sam Gejdenson, Benjamin A. Gilman, Charles A. Hayes, George J. Hochbrueckner, Frank Horton, Barbara Kennelly, Peter H. Kostmayer, Nita M. Lowey, Thomas A. Luken, Thomas J. Manton, Edward J. Markey, Michael R. McNulty, Nicholas Mavroules, Raymond J. McGrath, Bruce A. Morrison, Robert J. Mrazek, Richard Neal, Major R. Owens, Charles B. Rangel, Edward R. Roybal, Marty Russo, James H. Scheuer, Charles E. Schumer, Edolphus Towns, Curt Weldon, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, amici curiae.
Donald L. Ungar, San Francisco, Cal. (Simmons, Ungar, Helbush, DiCostanzo & Steinberg, of counsel), for American Immigration Lawyers Ass'n, amicus curiae.
Before LUMBARD, FEINBERG, and PRATT, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
Joseph Patrick Doherty, a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ("PIRA") who has been imprisoned in this country since 1983, petitions this court to review: (1) an order of former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, dated June 9, 1988, that rejected Doherty's designation of the Republic of Ireland as his country of deportation; and (2) an order of Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, dated June 30, 1989, that denied Doherty...
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