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MATTIS v. RENO

No. 99-1429.

212 F.3d 31 (2000)

Dwight W. MATTIS, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General of the United States, et al., Respondents, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 8, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher J. Meade, American Civil Liberties Union, with whom Allan M. Tow was on brief, for petitioner, appellant.

Lyle D. Jentzer, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Norah A. Schwarz, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondents, appellees.

Before BOUDIN, STAHL, and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Before April 1996, lawful permanent resident aliens who were deportable because they had committed certain criminal offenses had one last hope to remain in the United States. They could apply for a waiver of deportation, technically known as a § 212(c) waiver, and the Attorney General, by act of grace, could grant relief.1 The act of grace was not rare: in the years immediately preceding the statute's passage...

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