ATIEH v. RIORDAN

No. 12-2314.

727 F.3d 73 (2013)

Raniah Fathi ATIEH and Fuad Farouq Atieh, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Denis RIORDAN et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 24, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip H. Mantis and Saher J. Macarius , with whom Audrey Botros and Law Offices of Saher J. Macarius were on brief, for appellants.

J. Max Weintraub , Senior Litigation Counsel, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Stuart F. Delery , Acting Assistant Attorney General, David J. Kline , Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Colin A. Kisor , Deputy Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for appellees.

Before HOWARD, SELYA and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The infrastructure of the adjudicative process consists of rules, many of which are procedural. Not surprisingly, then, the due administration of justice typically requires both courts and litigants to give fastidious attention to procedural regularity. When parties lead a court down a path that ignores proper procedure, bad things often happen.

This case illustrates the point: the parties presented the matter to the district court in...

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