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Kerry Bretz: Lawyer with Bretz & Coven, LLP

Kerry Bretz

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New York,  NY  U.S.A.
Phone917-338-3973

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Practice Areas

  • Deportation
  • Immigration and Naturalization
  • Immigration Law
  • Employment Visas
  • Visas
  • Citizenship
 
University Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York, B.A., magna cum laude, 1988
 
Law SchoolCity University of New York School of Law, Queens College, J.D., 1991
 
Admitted1991, Connecticut; 1992, New York; 1994, Florida and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
 
Memberships The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Immigration Committee, 1997); New York City Lawyers Association (Member, Immigration Committee, 1993).
 
LanguagesSpanish
 
BornBayshore, N.Y.
 
Biography

Phi Sigma Alpha; Omicron Delta Epsilon. Contributing Editor, AILA Litigation Toolbox, American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1999. Author: "Basics on Habeas Corpus," AILA Handbook on Waivers and "Relief from Removal," American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1999. Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1994.

 
Reported CasesHenderson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 157 F.3d 106 (2nd Cir. 1998); St. John v. McElroy, 917 F.Supp. 243 (S.D.N.Y. 1996); Cruz-Taveras v. McElroy, 1996 WL 455012 (S.D.N.Y. August 12, 1996); Thomas v. McElroy, 1996 WL 487953 (S.D.N.Y. August 23, 1996) (same); Alba v. McElroy, 96 Civ. 8748 (DLC), 1996 U.S. Dist. Lexis 17796 (S.D.N.Y. December 4, 1996); Pottinger v. Reno, 51 F.Supp.2d 349 (E.D.N.Y. 1999); Henderson v. INS, 157 F.3d 106 (2d Cir, 1998), cert. denied sub nom.; Reno v. Navas, 119 S. Ct. 1141 (1999); Mojica v. Reno, 970 F.Supp. 130 (E.D.N.Y. 1997); aff'd, Henderson v. INS, 157 F.3d 106 (2d Cir. 1998), cert. denied sub nom.; Reno v. Navas, 119 S. Ct. 1141 (U.S. Mar. 8, 1999); Alba v. McElroy, Dkt. No. 96 CIV. 8748 (DLC), 1996 WL 695811 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 4, 1996); Thomas v. McElroy, Dkt. No. 96 CIV. 5065 (JSM), 1996 WL 487953 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 27, 1996); Cruz-Taveras v. McElroy, Dkt. No. 96 CIV. 5068 (MBM), 1996 WL 455012 (S.D.N.Y. Aug 13, 1996); St. John v. McElroy, 917 F.Supp. 243 (S.D.N.Y. 1996).
 
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Kerry Bretz
Bretz & Coven, LLP
305 Broadway, Suite 100
New York, NY 10007




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