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SANDOVAL v. RENO

Nos. 98-1099, 98-1547 and 98-3214.

166 F.3d 225 (1999)

Reynaldo SANDOVAL, Petitioner/Appellee, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General; Doris Meissner, Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; and J. Scott Blackman, Acting District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents/Appellants. Reynaldo Sandoval, Petitioner, v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Christopher C. Fuller, Senior Litigation Counsel, Michael P. Lindemann, Assistant Director, Madeline Henley (Argued), United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents/Appellants.

Lee Gelernt (Argued), Lucas Guttentag, Cecillia Wang, American Civil Liberties Union, Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, N.Y., Steven A. Morley (Argued), Bagia & Morley, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellee/Petitioner.

Lenni B. Benson, New York Law School, New York, N.Y., Jeffrey A. Heller, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, N.J., for Amici Law Professors.

Before: SLOVITER, SCIRICA and ALITO, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

I.

INTRODUCTION

In 1996, the 104th Congress passed, and the President signed into law, two bills that made sweeping changes in the immigration laws: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA"), Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996), and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("IIRIRA"), Pub.L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009 ...

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