[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 2 (Monday, January 5, 2009)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 201]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Executive Office for Immigration Review

8 CFR Parts 1001, 1003, 1292

[Docket No. EOIR 160F; A.G. Order No. 3028-2008]
RIN 1125 AA59


Professional Conduct for Practitioners--Rules and Procedures, and 
Representation and Appearances

AGENCY: Executive Office for Immigration Review, Justice.

ACTION: Correction to final rule.

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SUMMARY: This document contains a correction to the final rule 
published Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 73 FR 76914, relating to the 
rules and procedures that govern the standards of representation and 
professional conduct for practitioners who appear before the Executive 
Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).

DATES: Effective Date: January 5, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John N. Blum, Acting General Counsel, 
Executive Office for Immigration Review, Suite 2600, 5107 Leesburg 
Pike, Falls Church, Virginia 22041, telephone number (703) 305-0470 
(not a toll free call).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The final rule that is the subject of these 
corrections amends Department of Justice regulations by amending the 
rules and procedures for imposing disciplinary sanctions against 
practitioners who engage in criminal, unethical, or unprofessional 
conduct, or in frivolous behavior in proceedings before EOIR. The final 
rule increases the number of grounds for discipline and improves the 
clarity and uniformity of the existing rules while incorporating 
miscellaneous technical and procedural changes.

Need for Correction

    As published, the final rule contains a typographical error that 
may cause confusion and therefore is in need of clarification. The 
instruction for 8 CFR 1003.103 says in part that the first sentence of 
paragraph (a)(1) is revised. However the entire paragraph is revised. 
The first sentence is revised to reflect the technical correction in 
terminology from ``the Office of the General Counsel of EOIR'' to ``the 
EOIR disciplinary counsel,'' and to allow for immediate suspension of a 
practitioner who resigns from the highest court of any State, 
possession, territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or the 
District of Columbia, or any Federal court, while a disciplinary 
investigation is pending. The paragraph is further revised to 
incorporate the technical correction in terminology from ``the Office 
of the General Counsel of the Service'' to ``DHS.''

Correction

    For the reasons stated above, in the FR Doc. E8-30027, beginning on 
page 76914 in the Federal Register of Thursday, December 18, 2008, the 
following correction is made:


Sec.  1003.103  [Corrected]

    On page 76923, in the third column, instruction 7a. is corrected to 
read as follows:

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7. Amend Sec.  1003.103 by:
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a. Revising paragraph (a)(1);
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    Dated: December 30, 2008.
Rosemary Hart,
Federal Register Liaison.
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