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KIARELDEEN v. RENO

No. CIV 99-3925.

92 F.Supp.2d 403 (2000)

Hany Mahmoud KIARELDEEN, Petitioner, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General; Immigration and Naturalization Service; Paul Schmidt, Chair, Board of Immigration Appeals; Doris Meissner, Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Andrea Quarantillo, District Director, Newark INS; and Ralph Green, Warden, Hudson County Correctional Center, Respondents.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

April 11, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Regis Fernandez, Newark, NJ, David Cole, Center for Constitutional Rights, Washington, DC, Nancy Chang, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, NY, Houeida Saad, Arlington, VA, for Petitioner.

Robert J. Cleary, United States Attorney, James B. Clark III, Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, District of New Jersey Newark, NJ, David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Lindemann, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Douglas E. Ginsburg, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondents.

OPINION

WALLS, District Judge.

Respondents oppose petitioner's motion for attorneys' fees and costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412. Petitioner Hany Kiareldeen seeks an award of $110,743.06. The petitioner's request for costs and attorneys' fees is granted.

BACKGROUND

On October 20, 1999, after petitioner, a resident alien, had been held in custody for 19 months by the Immigration and Naturalization Service...

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