TZOMPANTZI-SALAZAR v. GARLAND

No. 20-71514.

32 F.4th 696 (2022)

Jose TZOMPANTZI-SALAZAR, Petitioner, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 9, 2022.

Amended April 21, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray David Hilts , Law Offices of Murray D. Hilts, San Diego, California, for Petitioner.

Jessica D. Strokus , Trial Attorney; Anthony C. Payne , Assistant Director; Brian Boynton , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

Before: Ryan D. Nelson and Lawrence VanDyke, Circuit Judges, and Karen E. Schreier, District Judge.


ORDER

The Opinion filed on February 9, 2022, is amended as follows:

On slip opinion page 17, replace <While petitioners seeking CAT relief are not required to prove that safe relocation would be factually impossible, they bear the ultimate burden on all CAT factors, including relocation. Maldonado, 786 F.3d at 1164 ("[T]he BIA is not precluded from reading § 1208.16(c)(3) as requiring a CAT...

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