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RIOS v. LYNCH

No. 12-72551.

807 F.3d 1123 (2015)

Felix Flores RIOS, aka Alex Miguel Reyes, aka Alex Rios, aka Miguel Rios, aka Miguel Flores Rios, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 1, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mardy M. Sproule , Law Offices of Mardy M. Sproule, Commerce, California, for Petitioner.

Stuart F. Delery , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Jennifer L. Lightbody , Senior Litigation Counsel; Robbin K. Blaya , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before: SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Chief Judge and MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

This appeal requires us to consider the meaning of "membership in a particular social group" in the context of withholding of removal proceedings under the immigration laws. Providing a precise definition for this inherently flexible term, which is not defined in the legislation, has long bedeviled those...

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