ARSDI v. HOLDER

No. 10-72147.

659 F.3d 925 (2011)

Alazar Getachew ARSDI, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 24, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evangeline G. Abriel , Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA, argued the cause and filed the briefs for the petitioner. With her on the briefs were Neil Banerjee and Maria M. Ciurea , Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA.

Aaron R. Petty , United States Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., argued the cause and filed the brief for the respondent. With him on the brief were Tony West and Christopher C. Fuller , Department of Justice Civil Division, Washington, D.C.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We are called upon to decide whether an alien exhausted his administrative remedies in challenging an immigration judge's ruling that he had committed a "particularly serious crime" and therefore was subject to removal from the United States.

I

Alazar Getachew Arsdi is a native and citizen of Ethiopia, who came to the United States with his mother in 2002 at age fourteen and who became a legal permanent...

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