191184P.pdf   10/05/2020  United States  v.  Mubarak Hamed
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1184
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Colloton, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Civil case - Denaturalization. In action by the government to denaturalize 
   Hamed, he was judicially estopped from taking a position inconsistent with 
   his admissions in his plea proceedings in a prior criminal action; in that 
   criminal case, Hamed admitted he knowingly and willfully conspired to 
   violate Iraq sanctions orders, and this is clearly inconsistent with his 
   current position that he was unaware at the time he applied for 
   naturalization that he had knowingly committed a crime for which he had 
   not been arrested; further, Hamed was repeatedly warned in the criminal 
   proceedings that his plea could affect his immigration status; the 
   doctrine of laches does not apply to the U.S. when it is acting in its 
   sovereign capacity, and Hamed's argument that an 8-year delay between his 
   conviction and this denaturalization proceeding was too long must be 
   rejected. Judge Colloton, concurring.