MEDINA-NUNEZ v. LYNCH

No. 14-70657.

788 F.3d 1103 (2015)

Jose Juan MEDINA-NUNEZ, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 8, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary A. Watt and Stephen R. Tollafield , Supervising Counsel, Dorothy C. Yamamoto (argued) and Gregory R. Michael , Student Counsel, Hastings Appellate Project, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.

Rebekah Nahas (argued), Trial Attorney, and Joyce R. Branda , Acting Assisting Attorney General, Civil Division, Douglas E. Ginsburg , Assistant Director, and Karen L. Melnik , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges, and MICHAEL A. PONSOR, Senior District Judge.


OPINION

Petitioner Jose Juan Medina-Nunez petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") denial of his application for cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a). The BIA held that Petitioner did not meet the statutory seven-year residency requirement because, under In re Reza-Murillo, 25 I. ...

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