Tefel V. Reno

This class action involves the application of the recently enacted "stoptime" rule for determining eligibility for suspension of deportation. Appellants Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States; Robert Wallis, Miami District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; the Immigration and Naturalization Service; the United States Department of Justice; and the Board of Immigration Appeals (collectively the "INS") appeal two orders: (1) the district court's order entering a class-wide preliminary injunction prohibiting the enforcement of section 309(c)(5) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("IIRIRA") as amended by the Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act ("NACARA"), and (2) the district court's order denying the INS' motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction.