OLMOS v. HOLDER

No. 14-1085.

780 F.3d 1313 (2015)

Manuel OLMOS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent-Appellant. Asian Americans Advancing Justice; Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus; Detention Watch Network; Families for Freedom; Immigrant Rights Clinic; Immigration Equality; The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network; The University of Colorado Boulder Law School Criminal/Immigration Defense Clinic; The University of Denver Sturm College of Law Hybrid Immigration Program, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 24, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hans H. Chen , Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C. ( Stuart F. Delery , Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Colin A. Kisor , Acting Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, District Court Section, Jeffrey S. Robins , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., with him on the briefs), for Respondent-Appellant.

Michael K.T. Tan , American Civil Liberties Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, CA ( Eunice Lee , American Civil Liberties Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, CA, Judy Rabinovitz , American Civil Liberties Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York, and Mark Silverstein , ACLU of Colorado, Denver, CO with him on the brief), for Petitioner-Appellee.

Jon Streeter , Stacy Chen , and Theresa H. Nguyen , Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco, CA, filed an Amici Curiae brief for Asian Americans Advancing Justice and AAJC and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus.

Alina Das , Washington Square Legal Services, Inc., Immigrant Rights Clinic, New York, New York, filed an Amici Curiae brief for Detention Watch Network, Families for Freedom, Immigrant Rights Clinic, Immigration Equality, The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, The University of Colorado Boulder Law School Criminal/Immigration Defense Clinic, and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Hybrid Immigration Program.

Before BRISCOE, Chief Judge, HOLMES, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.


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