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WALLACE v. RENO

Nos. 98-2317, 99-1596.

194 F.3d 279 (1999)

Tasfa Wolde WALLACE, Appellee, v. Janet RENO, et al., Appellants. Carlos Alberto Lemos, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Duffy, Office of Immigration Litigation, Department of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Christopher C. Fuller, Senior Litigation Counsel, were on brief for appellants Janet Reno, et al.

Christopher J. Meade and Frederic A. Marzilli for petitioner Carlos Alberto Lemos.

Randy Olen for appellee Tasfa Wolde Wallace.

David M. McConnell, Assistant Director, Civil Division, Department of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Laura A. Smith, Civil Division, Department of Justice, and Frank J. Crowley, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Immigration and Naturalization Service, were on brief for respondent Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judges.

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

This pair of cases is the next installment in a series presenting legal questions of reviewability and retroactivity under newly enacted immigration statutes. The issues are legal ones, which we review de novo, and arise out of the following facts.

In No. 99-1596, the appellant is Carlos Lemos, a native of Portugal who entered the United States as an immigrant on December 18, 1974. In...

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