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PIRIR-BOC v. HOLDER

No. 09-73671.

750 F.3d 1077 (2014)

Oliverto PIRIR-BOC, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 7, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger S. Green (argued) and Jenny Tsai, Green & Tsai, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner.

Dawn S. Conrad (argued), Sarah L. Vuong , and Kimberly A. Burdge , Trial Attorneys; Song Park , Senior Litigation Counsel; Tony West and Stuart F. Delery , Assistant Attorneys General; Emily Anne Radford , Assistant Director, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM K. SESSIONS, District Judge.

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Oliverto Pirir-Boc ("Pirir-Boc") was granted asylum by the Immigration Judge ("IJ") based on his well-founded fear of persecution as a member of a particular social group characterized as individuals "taking concrete steps to oppose gang membership and gang authority." The Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") vacated the grant of asylum on the ground that Pirir-Boc's "purported social group lacks the requisite particularity...

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