Flores-Villar
United States v. Flores-Villar
Opinion
Opinion
Rymer COUNSEL, J.
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 07-50445 Plaintiff-Appellee, v. D.C. No.
CR-06-00592-BTM
RUBEN FLORES-VILLAR,
OPINION
Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Barry T. Moskowitz, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted July 17, 2008—Pasadena, California
Filed August 6, 2008
Before: Cynthia Holcomb Hall, Pamela Ann Rymer, and Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Rymer COUNSEL
Elizabeth M. Barros, Assistant Federal Public Defender, San Diego, California, for the defendant-appellant.
William A. Hall, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, California, for the plaintiff-appellee. 9948 UNITED STATES v. FLORES-VILLAR
OPINION
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
Ruben Flores-Villar raises a challenge under the equal pro- tection component of the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause on the basis of age and gender to two former sections of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1401(a)(7) and 1409 (1974), which impose a five-year res-…