OPPEDISANO v. HOLDER

Docket No. 13-4351-ag.

769 F.3d 147 (2014)

Rocco OPPEDISANO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 8, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shari Lauren Astalos ( Brian Wolf and Kerry Bretz , on the brief), Bretz & Coven, LLP, New York, New York, for Petitioner Rocco Oppedisano.

Rachel Browning , Trial Attorney ( Stuart F. Delery , Assistant Attorney General and Blair O'Connor , Assistant Director, on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney General.

Before: PARKER, LYNCH, and CARNEY, Circuit Judges.


GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:

Rocco Oppedisano seeks review of a published order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") determining that his conviction for the unlawful possession of ammunition under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) qualifies as an aggravated felony under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(E)(ii). Because the BIA's decision is a permissible construction of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA") entitled to Chevron deference from this Court,...

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