Dean Alphonso CHAMBERS, Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
Janet RENO, Attorney General of the United States; Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service; Richard Caterisano, Acting District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service; U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service; United States Department of Justice, Respondents-Appellees.
Deborah Anker; Lenni B. Benson; Carolyn Patty Blum; Richard Boswell; Erwin Chermerinsky; Michael J. Churgin; Sarah H. Cleveland; David Cole; Michael G. Heyman; Kevin R. Johnson; Daniel Kanstroom; Steven H. Legomsky; M. Isabel Medina; Gerald L. Neuman; John Scanlan; Peter H. Schuck; Andrew Silverman; Irwin P. Stotzky; Michael J. Wishnie; Larry W. Yackle, Amici Curiae.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued June 3, 2002.
Decided October 15, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: Christopher J. Meade, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, New York, New York, for Petitioner-Appellant. Papu Sandhu, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents-Appellees.
ON BRIEF: Paul A. Engelmayer, Katherine R. Goldstein, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, New York, New York; Shanta Ramson, Ramson & Associates, L.L.C., Burtonsville, Maryland; Lee Gelernt, Lucas Guttentag, Immigrants' Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, for Petitioner-Appellant. David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents-Appellees. Lenni B. Benson, New York Law School, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae.
Before WIDENER and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and JOSEPH R. GOODWIN, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge TRAXLER wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge WIDENER joined. Judge GOODWIN wrote a dissenting opinion.
OPINION
TRAXLER, Circuit Judge.
We are asked to decide whether IIRIRA's1 repeal of discretionary relief for aggravated felons who have been ordered to be deported can be applied to appellant Dean Chambers, who was convicted at trial of an aggravated felony prior to the enactment...
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