NANTUME v. BARR

No. 18-1911.

931 F.3d 35 (2019)

Catherine Leoni NANTUME, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 23, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melanie Shapiro , Providence, RI, with whom Law Office of Melanie Shapiro, Harvey Kaplan , Boston, MA, and Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services, were on brief, for petitioner.

Scott Grant Stewart , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, Kiley Kane , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Jane T. Schaffner , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

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


In Sihotang v. Sessions, 900 F.3d 46 (1st Cir. 2018), we explained that "[m]otions to reopen — especially untimely motions to reopen — are disfavored in immigration cases. Consequently, an alien who seeks to reopen removal proceedings...

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