LANIER v. U.S. ATTY. GEN.

No. 09-15300.

631 F.3d 1363 (2011)

Margaret Olayinka LANIER, a.k.a. Carol Denise Bryant, a.k.a. Andrea Unis Saunders, Petitioner, v. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 4, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Elizabeth Kramer , Mary E. Kramer, P.A., Miami, FL, George E. Crimarco , Coral Gables, FL, for Petitioner.

R. Alexander Goring , P. Michael Truman , U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before BARKETT, MARCUS and FAY, Circuit Judges.


BARKETT, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Margaret Olayinka Lanier, a citizen and native of Nigeria and a lawful permanent resident of the United States, seeks judicial review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") order that Lanier be removed to Nigeria. Lanier argues that the IJ and BIA erred as a matter of law in determining that she was statutorily ineligible to apply for a discretionary waiver of removal under...

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