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JOBE v. I.N.S.

No. 99-1064.

238 F.3d 96 (2001)

Sulay JOBE, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 30, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda M. Sanchez, with whom Cooper & Sanchez were on brief for petitioner.

Iris Gomez and Harvey Kaplan, with whom Kaplan, O'Sullivan and Friedman, was on brief for Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project, Greater Boston Legal Services, International Institute of Boston, Community Legal Services and Counseling Center, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and American Immigration Lawyers Association, amici curiae.

Brenda E. Ellison, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, SELYA, BOUDIN, STAHL, LYNCH, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

OPINION EN BANC

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Sulay Jobe failed to appear at his deportation hearing and was ordered deported in absentia. More than eight months later, Jobe filed a motion to reopen asking that his deportation order be rescinded. In support of the motion, Jobe alleged that ineffective assistance of counsel had caused him to miss the deportation hearing. An immigration judge ("IJ") denied the motion as untimely because, by statute...

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