• Chavez-Garcia v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2017-09-21
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-09-21
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: S. Jay Plager,*Carlos T. Bea, and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gowri Ramachandran (argued), Supervising Attorney; Alexandra Angel (argued), Charlie Wang (argued) Samuel Barry, and Nadejda Sokolova, Certified Law Students; Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California; Andrew Knapp, Immigrant Access to Justice Assistance, Los Angeles, California; for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Fitzgerald-Sambou (argued) and Mona Maria Yousif, Trial Attorneys; John S. Hogan, Assistant Director; Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 14-72172

    Departure from United States did not waive alien's right to appeal finding of removability (Bea, J.)

  • Cornejo-Villagrana v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2017-09-18
    Practice Area: Immigration Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-09-14
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges, and Rosanna Malouf Peterson,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Wiesinger (argued) and John M. Pope, Pope & Associates P.C., Phoenix, Arizona, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Corey L. Farrell (argued), Attorney; Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 13-72185

    Arizona conviction for misdemeanor domestic violence assault constituted removable offense (Peterson, J.)

  • Tuffly v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

    Publication Date: 2017-09-15
    Practice Area: Public Records | Privacy | Immigration Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-09-13
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Roslyn O. Silver, Senior District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, Stephen Reinhardt, Circuit Judge, and Edward R. Korman,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Bekesha (argued) and James F. Peterson, Judicial Watch Inc., Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. Kamenshine (argued) and Matthew Collette, Appellate Staff; John S. Leonardo, United States Attorney; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendant-Appellee.

    Case Number: No. 16-15342

    Former ICE detainees' privacy interests outweighed public interest in disclosure of identifying information (Reinhardt, J.)

  • State of Hawaii v. Trump

    Publication Date: 2017-09-08
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-09-07
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Derrick Kahala Watson, District Judge, Presiding Before: Michael Daly Hawkins, Ronald M. Gould, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal Kumar Katyal, Colleen Roh Sinzdak, Mitchell P. Reich, and Elizabeth Hagerty, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C.; Thomas P. Schmidt, Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, New York; Sara Solow and Alexander B. Bowerman, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Douglas S. Chin, Attorney General; Clyde J. Wadsworth, Solicitor General; Deirdre Marie-Iha, Donna H. Kalama, Kimberly T. Guidry, and Robert T. Nakatsuji, Deputy Attorneys General; Department of the Attorney General, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawai'i; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Jeffrey B. Wall, Acting Solicitor General; Edwin S. Kneedler, Deputy Solicitor General; Chad A. Readler, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Elliot Enoki, Acting United States Attorney; Hashim M. Mooppan, Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Douglas N. Letter, Sharon Swingle, H. Thomas Byron III, and Lowell V. Sturgill Jr., Attorneys, Appellate Staff; Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellants.

    Case Number: No. 17-16426

    District court properly construed "bona fide relationship" in modifying preliminary injunction of executive order on immigration (per curiam)

  • Hsiao v. Hazuda

    Publication Date: 2017-09-05
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-09-01
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding Before: Richard R. Clifton and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges, and Thomas O. Rice,* Chief District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Eric Bratton (argued) and Margaret W. Wong, Margaret Wong & Associates, Cleveland, Ohio, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Glenn Matthew Girdharry (argued), Assistant Director; Elianis N. Perez, Senior Litigation Counsel; William C. Peachey, Director; District Court Section, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 15-55676

    Alien must show changed circumstances to support claim that denied visa petition was actually "approvable when filed" (Clifton, J.)

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  • Sanchez v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2017-09-01
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-30
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Harry Pregerson, Richard A. Paez, and Morgan B. Christen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Wolfgang Gehart (argued), Lourdes Barrera Haley, Elena Yampolsky, and Carlos Vellanoweth, Vellanoweth & Gehart LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Tim Ramnitz (argued), Attorney; Jennifer P. Levings, Senior Litigation Counsel; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 14-71768

    Coast Guard's egregious violation of individual's Fourth Amendment rights warranted suppression (Pregerson, J.)

  • Mejia v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2017-08-30
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-29
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Susan P. Graber and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Edward J. Davila,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew J. Smock (argued) and Amy J. Laurendeau, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Newport Beach, California, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Sarah K. Pergolizzi (argued), Trial Attorney; Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director; Chad A. Readler, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 15-70155

    IJ erred in not determining need for procedural safeguards for mentally incompetent asylum applicant (Davila, J.)

  • Marinelarena v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2017-08-28
    Practice Area: Immigration Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2017-08-23
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: A. Wallace Tashima, Barry G. Silverman, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Knapp (argued), Supervising Attorney; Laura Free (argued), Isis Miranda (argued), Lilit Arabyan, and Eric M. Sowatsky, Certified Law Students; Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California; for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Tim Ramnitz (argued), Attorney; Jennifer P. Levings, Senior Litigation Counsel; Shelley R. Goad, Assistant Director; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 14-72003

    Supreme court's decision in Moncrieffe did not abrogate Ninth Circuit's holding in Young (Graber, J.)

  • Sales v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2017-08-18
    Practice Area: Immigration Law | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Date Filed: 2017-08-18
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Jon P. McCalla,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harry J. Moren (argued), Alexander K. Talarides, and James N. Kramer, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Jesse L. Busen (argued), Trial Attorney; Eric W. Marsteller and Claire L. Workman, Senior Litigation Counsel; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 15-70885

    California murder conviction based on aiding and abetting qualified as aggravated felony for removal purposes (Schroeder, J.)

  • Lozano-Arredondo v. Sessions

    Publication Date: 2017-08-09
    Practice Area: Immigration Law | Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2017-08-08
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Before: William A. Fletcher, Raymond C. Fisher and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maria Elena Andrade (argued) and Nathaniel J. Damren, Andrade Legal, Boise, Idaho, for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Gregory A. Pennington, Jr. (argued) and Kathryn M. McKinney, Trial Attorneys; Anh-Thu P. Mai-Windle and Kiley Kane, Senior Litigation Counsel; Joyce R. Branda, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

    Case Number: No. 11-72422

    Agency erred in failing to exercise "expertise and discretion" to interpret ambiguous statutory definition of deportable offense (Fisher, J.)