GONZALEZ-MEDINA v. HOLDER

No. 10-70913.

641 F.3d 333 (2011)

Porfiria GONZALEZ-MEDINA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 7, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell W. Pritchett , Pritchett & Jacobson, P.S., Bellingham, WA, for the petitioner.

Tony West , Thomas B. Fatouros and Anh-Thu P. Mai-Windle , United States Department of Justice, Washington D.C., for the respondent.

Before: M. MARGARET McKEOWN, RAYMOND C. FISHER, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

Porfiria Gonzalez-Medina, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming an immigration judge's ("IJ") final order of removal, denying her claims for asylum and withholding of removal. In her petition, Gonzalez-Medina raises two issues of first impression: whether applying the one-year filing deadline to her asylum application violates the Equal Protection...

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