Cert Petition of the Day

SCOTUSBlog’s Petition of the Day is from an immigration case.  The petition concerns the retroactivity of the repeal of § 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the role of reliance in retroactivity analysis. The case is Guerrero v. Holder (7th Cior. 2011).  Here are the questions presented:

(1) Whether and to what extent the repeal of Section 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which made discretionary relief available to certain permanent residents convicted of deportable crimes, is impermissibly retroactive; and

(2) what role reliance should play in in a retroactivity analysis.

KJ