Daniel Valencia-Alvarez v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

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• rejecting a res judicata argument because the alien had not obtained a prior “final judgment, rendered on the merits in a separate action”
• finding no impermissible retroactive effect in the denial of pre-IIRIRA relief because the petitioner had not been in the United States long enough to qualify for the relief at the time of IIRIRA’s passage
• “The criteria for the application of res judicata ... are that there be a final judgment, rendered on the merits in a separate action.” (emphasis in original)
• “The criteria for the application of res judicata . . . are that there be a final judgment, rendered on the merits in a separate action.” (emphasis in original)

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