AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOC. V. RENO:  D.C. CIRCUIT REJECTS CHALLENGE TO EXPEDITED REMOVAL
Immigrants’ Rights Update, Vol. 14, No. 1, February 11, 2000

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld a district court’s rulings dismissing three consolidated lawsuits that sought to challenge the implementation of the expedited removal provisions of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) (see "District Court Dismisses Challenges to Expedited Removal Regulations," Immigrants’ Rights Update, Sept. 16, 1998, p.5).  On appeal, the court held that the organizational plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the provisions.  The court also upheld the district court’s ruling that most of the individual plaintiffs could not challenge the procedures because they failed to meet the statute’s requirement that any challenge be brought within 60 days of the implementation of the challenged procedure.  And the court upheld the district court’s dismissal of the claims of the two individuals who did file within the 60-day period, on the basis that they failed to state a cause of action.

American Immigration Lawyers Assoc. v. Reno, __ F.3d __, 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 254 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 11, 2000).

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