MEJIA RODRIGUEZ v. RENO

Nos. 98-4426, 98-5878.

178 F.3d 1139 (1999)

Ernesto Alonso MEJIA RODRIGUEZ, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Janet RENO, as Attorney General of the United States, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents-Appellees. Ernesto Alonso Mejia Rodriguez, Petitioner, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 22, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot H. Scherker, Oscar Levin, Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff & Quentel, P.A., Miami, FL, for Mejia Rodriguez.

Jane Gomez, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Respondents-Appellees.

David V. Bernal, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondents-Appellees and Respondent.

Janet Reno, U.S. Attorney General, Dept. of Justice, Laura M. Friedman, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before CARNES and HULL, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


HULL, Circuit Judge:

This consolidated case involves two separate appeals. First, in 1997 Appellant Ernesto Alonso Mejia Rodriguez ("Mejia") filed a motion to reopen his deportation proceedings, which became final in 1994. The BIA denied Mejia's motion to reopen. In appeal No. 98-5878, Mejia has filed a petition for review in this Court appealing the BIA's denial of his motion to reopen.

While his motion to reopen was still pending before the BIA, Mejia filed...

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