Legal Opinion
Rankine v. Reno
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 28, 2003No. Docket Nos. 01-2135(L), 01-2483(CON), 00-2631PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge.
These cases, which we address in tandem, raise the issue whether Congress’s repeal of discretionary waivers of deportation has an impermissible retroactive effect when applied to aliens who were convicted at trial before the date of the repeal. In St. Cyr v. INS, 229 F.3d 406 (2d Cir.2000), which the Supreme Court upheld in INS v. St. Cyr, 533 U.S. 289, 121 S.Ct. 2271, 150 L.Ed.2d 347 (2001), we found that an impermissible retroactive effect did exist with respect to aliens who had entered into plea agreements prior to the repeal of discretionary relief because the…
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