PINEDA v. WHITAKER

No. 18-1162.

908 F.3d 836 (2018)

Geovanny PINEDA, Petitioner, v. Matthew G. WHITAKER, Acting Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

November 19, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin MacMurray , Daniel W. Chin , and MacMurray & Associates on brief for petitioner.

Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Linda S. Wernery , Assistant Director, and Lindsay B. Glauner , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Selya and Thompson, Circuit Judges.


We recently wrote that "[m]otions to reopen — especially untimely motions to reopen — are disfavored in immigration cases. Consequently, an alien who seeks to reopen removal proceedings out of time ordinarily faces a steep uphill climb." Sihotang v. Sessions,

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