Case Name: R.L. INVESTMENT LIMITED PARTNERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Wanxuan Zou, Plaintiff, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2001-11-20
Citations: 273 F.3d 874
Docket Number: No. 00-15627
Parties: R.L. INVESTMENT LIMITED PARTNERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Wanxuan Zou, Plaintiff, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: FERNANDEZ, RYMER, and WARD LAW, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 273
Pages: 874–875

Head Matter:
R.L. INVESTMENT LIMITED PARTNERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Wanxuan Zou, Plaintiff, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 00-15627.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Nov. 6, 2001
Filed Nov. 20, 2001
Ira J. Kurzban, Kurzban Kurzban Weinger & Tetzeli, P.A., Miami, Florida, and Marc Van Der Hout, Van Der Hout & Brigagliano, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.
John C. Cunningham, Senior Litigation Counsel, Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appel-lee.
Before: FERNANDEZ, RYMER, and WARD LAW, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
We agree with and adopt the well reasoned opinion of the district court. R.L. Inv. Ltd. Partners v. INS, 86 F.Supp.2d 1014 (D.Haw.2000).
R.L. Investment Limited Partners argues for the first time on appeal that the INS's new rules were impermissibly retroactive, that the Administrative Appeals Office's (AAO) addition of new grounds for affirming the regional director's denial of Wanxuan Zou's petition violates the due process clause, and that the AAO is not an independent adjudicatory body entitled to render rules in an adjudicatory proceeding. However, we decline to consider these arguments because they were not raised in the district court. See Bolker v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue, 760 F.2d 1039, 1042 (9th Cir.1985).
AFFIRMED.