MEJIA v. BARR

No. 17-60580.

952 F.3d 255 (2020)

Denis Noe MEJIA, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED February 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lance Edward Curtright, Esq. , DeMott, McChesney, Curtright, Armendariz, L.L.P., San Antonio, TX, for Petitioner.

Shahrzad Baghai , Gregory Darrell Mack, Esq. , Senior Litigation Counsel, Colin James Tucker, Esq. , Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before HAYNES and OLDHAM, Circuit Judges, and HANEN, District Judge.


Petitioner Denis Noe Mejia, a Honduran citizen, entered the country unlawfully in February 2006. Also in 2006, the Government ordered him removed in absentia. There is no dispute Mejia received that removal order. But rather than challenge the order in 2006, Mejia waited ten years to file a motion to reopen...

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