Legal Opinion
Bakal v. Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 9, 2003No. 01-3719PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TARNOW, District Judge.
Najwa Bakal was ordered deported in absentia by a United States Immigration Court after failing to appear for her deportation hearing. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) refused to consider Bakal’s appeal because a statute and an INS regulation establish that the exclusive means for appealing an in absen-tia deportation order is to file a motion to reopen the proceedings with the Immigration Court. Bakal appeals the BIA’s refusal to examine the Immigration Court’s in absentia deportation order. For the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-ZacariasSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Kwong Hai Chew v. ColdingSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Wong Wing v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Carlos Huicochea-Gomez and Margot Huicochea-Reza v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
- Youri K. Koliada v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Singh v. GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2006
- Hendry Sanusi v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2007
- Bakal v. Ashcroft, Attorney GeneralSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Haxhire Agolli v. Eric Holder, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2010
- Sanusi v. GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2007