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U.S. v. SOUEITI

No. 97-50210.

154 F.3d 1018 (1998)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bassam SOUEITI, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Katz, Katz & Associates, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellant.

Marc Richard Greenberg, Assistant United States Attorney, Santa Ana, California, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: WIGGINS and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge.

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

Soueiti claims entitlement under the Equal Access to Justice Act to attorneys' fees for successfully opposing deportation at a criminal sentencing. The district judge denied them, and we affirm.

FACTS

Soueiti ran up hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses on several credit cards. He stretched out the fraud by paying his credit card bills with bad checks.

Soueiti was subject to judicial deportation at sentencing...

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