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CORDOBA v. HOLDER

Nos. 08-74384, 10-73112.

726 F.3d 1106 (2013)

Edgar Rene CORDOBA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent. Antonio Medina Gonzalez, Petitioner, v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 13, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan E. Hill (argued), Hill & Piibe, Immigration Attorneys, Los Angeles, CA, Saad Ahmad (argued), Saad Ahmad & Associates, Fremont, CA, for Petitioners.

Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Stephen J. Flynn , Assistant Director, Mehssa Neiman-Kelting , Assistant Director, and Imran R. Zaidi (argued). Trial Attorneys, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents.

Before: Stephen Reinhardt and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Jack Zouhary, District Judge.

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

These cases, consolidated for purposes of disposition, both present the question of whether landownership may form the basis for membership in a particular social group for purposes of eligibility for asylum. Because the agency did not have the benefit of our recent en banc decision in Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder when it adjudicated petitioners' claims, we grant the petitions for review and remand for the BIA to reconsider...

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