GJECI v. GONZALES

No. 05-1153, 05-2663.

451 F.3d 416 (2006)

Gazmend GJECI, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen D. Berman (argued), Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, Asheesh Agarwal (argued), Kurt B. Larson, Department of Justice, Immigration Litigation Office, Washington, DC, James S. Alexander, Office of the United States Attorney, Minneapolis, MN, for Respondent.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Gazmend Gjeci, an ethnic Albanian citizen of Kosovo, entered the United States illegally on May 30, 1998, and filed an administrative request for asylum a little less than one year later. His case has languished in the immigration courts since that initial filing; it was continued thirteen times — mostly at the behest of the government — over the course of four years before going to a merits hearing. Gjeci, who contends that he...

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