VAZ DOS REIS v. HOLDER

No. 09-2536.

606 F.3d 1 (2010)

Luiz Carlos VAZ DOS REIS, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 21, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Lyons, on brief, for petitioner.

Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Blair T. O'Connor, Assistant Director, and Joseph D. Hardy, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief, for respondent.

Before SELYA, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Luiz Carlos Vaz dos Reis, a Brazilian national, seeks judicial review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which affirmed the denial by an immigration judge (IJ) of his motion to reopen removal proceedings. The petitioner asserts that he did not receive notice of a scheduled hearing before the IJ; that the IJ erred by refusing to rescind the ensuing in absentia removal order and reopen his case; and that the...

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