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Wallace v. Reno, No. 98-11181-NG (D.Mass.) (39 F.Supp.2d 101) (March 19, 1999) (Judge Nancy Gertner)

Here the Court held that construing the Immigration and Naturalization Act to bar discretionary relief to aliens in deportation hearings, but not those in exclusion proceedings, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

The petitioner argued that the BIA's interpretation of § 440(d), denying § 212(c) relief to ...

 

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