C.J.L.G. v. SESSIONS

No. 16-73801.

880 F.3d 1122 (2018)

C.J.L.G., A Juvenile Male, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 29, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ahilan Thevanesan Arulanantham (argued), ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Stephen Kang , ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Matt Adams and Glenda M. Aldana Madrid , Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle, Washington; Theodore J. Angelis and Aaron E. Millstein , K&L Gates LLP, Seattle, Washington; Kristen Jackson and Talia Inlender , Public Counsel Law Center, Los Angeles, California; Kristin Macleod-Ball , National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, Massachusetts; Melissa Crow and Karolina Walters , American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C.; Emily Chiang , ACLU of Washington, Seattle, Washington; for Petitioner.

Kiley L. Kane (argued), Senior Litigation Counsel; Stephen J. Flynn , Assistant Director; Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

John E. Schreiber and Nareeneh Sohbatian , Winston & Strawn LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

Blaine Bookey , Karen Musalo , and Eunice Lee , San Francisco, California, as and for Amicus Curiae Center for Gender & Refugee Studies.

Robert A. Brundage and Lucy Wang , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, San Francisco, California; Daniel Grunfeld , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae Dr. Jennifer Woolard and Dr. Laurence Steinberg.

Concurrence by Judge Owens.


OPINION

"The right to counsel in immigration proceedings is rooted in the Due Process Clause [of the Fifth Amendment] and codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1362 and 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(b)(4)(A) [of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101, et seq.]."1 Biwot...

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