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LEE v. RENO

No. Civ.A. 97-2308(JHG).

15 F.Supp.2d 26 (1998)

Hsue Li LEE, Petitioner, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

July 27, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Lee Castle, Lynda Zengerle, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, DC, for Hsue Li Lee, petitioner.

Suzanne Claire Nyland, U.S. Attorney's Office, Washington, DC, for Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States, respondent.

Lee Gelernt, Lucas Guttentag, Cecilia Wang, Michael Wishnie, New York City, for American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project, Amicus.

OPINION AND ORDER

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

Recent sweeping changes to the nation's immigration laws, passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1996, have presented a number of difficult interpretive issues to the federal courts. This is one of those cases — one that raises two very important questions of statutory and, potentially, constitutional interpretation. The first is whether Congress intended only to streamline...

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