FIGUEROA v. MUKASEY

No. 05-75157.

543 F.3d 487 (2008)

Luis Arnoldo Alvarez FIGUEROA; Hilda Guerra De Alvarez, Petitioners, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 10, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Barilovits, Dechert LLP, Palo Alto, CA, and Kathy J. Huang, Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioners.

Julie S. Pfluger, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.

Before: A. WALLACE TASHIMA, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.


TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:

Luis Arnoldo Alvarez Figueroa and Hilda Guerra de Alvarez ("Petitioners") are a married couple who concede that they are removable aliens. They petition this Court to review the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") denial of their Application for Cancellation of Removal. Petitioners contend that the Immigration Judge ("IJ") applied improper legal standards in determining whether Petitioners had demonstrated...

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