BOGGALA v. SESSIONS

No. 16-1558.

866 F.3d 563 (2017)

Vijaya Prakash BOGGALA, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent. Professor Kaci Bishop, of UNC Law School; National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild; North Carolina Justice Center, Amici Supporting Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: August 9, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Helen Parsonage , ELLIOT MORGAN PARSONAGE PLLC, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Petitioner. Tim Ramnitz , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Shelley R. Goad , Assistant Director, Jennifer A. Singer , Office of Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. Sejal Zota , NATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD, Boston, Massachusetts, for Amici Curiae.

Petition denied by published opinion. Judge Floyd wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge Wilkinson joined. Judge Diaz wrote a separate dissenting opinion.


Vijaya Boggala, a citizen and native of India, petitions this Court for review of an order from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which found him both removable and inadmissible on the basis of his North Carolina deferred prosecution agreement for soliciting a child by computer to commit a sex act. Because the BIA properly...

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