
    Gerard Rafols SAPADEN, Petitioner—Appellant, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; Thomas Schiltgen, District Director of INS; James W. Ziglar, Commissioner of the INS; John Ashcroft, Attorney General; Leonard Kovensky, Assistant District Director of Deportation and Detention of the INS; Unnamed Deportation Officer in Charge of Petitioner’s Deportation Case, Respondents—Appellees.
    No. 00-56063.
    D.C. No. CV-00-00052-FMC.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Dec. 7, 2001.
    
    Decided June 18, 2003.
    Before PREGERSON, TASHIMA and BERZON, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       James W. Ziglar is substituted for his predecessor, Doris Meissner, as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
    
    
      
       John Ashcroft is substituted for his predecessor, Janet Reno, as Attorney General of the United States. Fed. R.App. P. 43(c)(2)
    
    
      
       The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. Fed. R. App P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

This court’s decision in Taniguchi v. Schultz, 303 F.3d 950 (9th Cir.2002) controls this case and precludes the relief that Mr. Sapaden seeks.

AFFIRMED. 
      
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