Legal Opinion

Kelly v. Farquharson

District Court, D. Massachusetts

Decided April 3, 2003No. CIV.A. 02-10884-PBSPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

Habeas petitioner Liam Brent Kelly, a non-criminal detainee from Canada, challenges the order of removal issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) on the grounds: (1) that he was denied his constitutional right of access to the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) and the courts; and (2) that prior to the 1996 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, he would have been eligible for a waiver of deportation and that the amendments have been unconstitutionally retroactively applied to him.

Complaining about his conditions of…

2Cases cited27 opinions

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  2. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. St. CyrSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
  3. Christopher v. HarburySupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  4. McCarthy v. MadiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
  5. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Lopez-MendozaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984

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3Cited by1 opinion

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