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LEDEZMA-COSINO v. SESSIONS

No. 12-73289.

857 F.3d 1042 (2017)

Salomon LEDEZMA-COSINO, aka Cocino Soloman Ledesma, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 30, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelsi Brown Corkran (argued), Thomas M. Bondy , Randall C. Smith , and Benjamin F. Aiken , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, D.C.; Nora E. Milner , Milner & Markee LLP, San Diego, California; for Petitioner.

Aimee J. Carmichael (argued) and Lisa M. Damiano , Attorneys; Patrick J. Glen , Senior Litigation Counsel; Terri J. Scadron and John W. Blakeley , Assistant Directors; Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

James E. Tysse and G. Michael Parsons, Jr. , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Drug Policy Alliance, National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, and Phoenix House.

Stephen B. Kang and Jennifer Chang Newell , ACLU Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Omar Jadwat , ACLU Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, New York; for Amici Curiae ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project and National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.

Dissent by Chief Judge Thomas

OPINION

Petitioner Salomon Ledezma-Cosino, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), which affirmed an immigration judge's ("IJ") denial of Petitioner's application for cancellation of removal. We deny the petition.1

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