VILLAVICENCIO v. SESSIONS

No. 13-74324.

879 F.3d 941 (2018)

Julio Cesar VILLAVICENCIO, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 5, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kari E. Hong (argued), Supervising Attorney; Katherine Horigan (argued) and Yara Kass-Gergi (argued), Certified Law Students; Ninth Circuit Appellate Project, Boston College Law School, Newton, Massachusetts; for Petitioner.

Dawn S. Conrad (argued) and Edward E. Wiggers , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Robert M. Loeb and Thomas M. Bondy , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, D.C.; Aaron W. Scherzer , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, New York; Brian P. Goldman , Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California; Jayashri Srikantiah and Lisa Weissman-Ward , Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Mills Legal Clinic, Stanford, California; Manuel Vargas and Andrew Wachtenheim , Immigrant Defense Project, New York, New York; for Amici Curiae Immigrant Defense Project, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, Detention Watch Network, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, National Immigration Law Center, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Public Counsel, U.C. Davis Immigration Law Clinic, and Centro Legal de la Raza.

Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and William H. Stafford, Jr., District Judge.


OPINION

Petitioner Julio Cesar Villavicencio seeks review of a decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming findings of removability and of ineligibility for cancellation of removal made by an Immigration Judge (IJ). Villavicencio was removed pursuant to the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1227...

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