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Ninth Circuit Criticizes Proposal to Consolidate Appeals

By immigrationprof

Ninth Circuit chief judge, Mary Schroeder has labeled as not “constructive” a provision in the Spector bill that would send all future appeals in deportation and asylum cases to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Another provision would assign each incoming case to a single judge, who would decide whether the appeal contained an issue that was serious enough to warrant a hearing before a 3-judge panel. See:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/13/MNGE2HN6N71.DTL

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