Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr

INS v. St. Cyr
INS v. St. Cyr
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 24, 2001; Decided June 25, 2001
Full case name	Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St. Cyr
Citations	533 U.S. 289 (more) 121 S. Ct. 2271; 150 L. Ed. 2d 347, 2001 U.S. LEXIS 4670
Case history
Prior	Dunbar v. INS, 64 F. Supp. 2d 47 (D. Conn. 1999); aff'd sub nom., St. Cyr v INS, 229 F.3d 406 (2d Cir. 2000); cert. granted, 531 U.S. 1107 (2001).
Holding
	AEDPA and IIRIRA did not divest district courts of their jurisdiction under the general habeas corpus statute.; Aliens who pleaded guilty to criminal charges that rendered them deportable prior to the effective date of AEDPA and IIRIRA remain eligible for discretionary relief from deportation.;
Court membership
	Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor; Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy; David Souter · Clarence Thomas; Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
Dissent	O'Connor
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Rehnquist, Thomas; O'Connor (Parts I and III)
Laws applied
	28 U.S.C. §§ 2241–2255

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr, 533 U.S. 289 (2001), is a United States Supreme Court case involving habeas corpus and INA § 212(c) relief (repealed 1997) for deportable aliens.

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