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DRAX v. RENO

Docket No. 02-2047.

338 F.3d 98 (2003)

David Anthony DRAX, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Janet RENO, as Attorney General of the United States; Doris Meissner, as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Edward McElroy, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, New York District; Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 4, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

SCOTT DUNN, Assistant United States Attorney (Varuni Nelson, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel, Alan Vinegrad, United States Attorney, on the brief), Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY; Alison Drucker, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondents-Appellants.

BRYAN LONEGAN (Janet Sabel, Scott Rosenberg, Helaine Barnett, of counsel), The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn, NY, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Before: MCLAUGHLIN and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and LYNCH, District Judge.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge.

This case vividly illustrates the labyrinthine character of modern immigration law—a maze of hyper-technical statutes and regulations that engender waste, delay, and confusion for the Government and petitioners alike. The inscrutability of the current immigration law system, and the interplay of the numerous amendments and alterations to that system by Congress during the pendency of this case, have spawned years of litigation...

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