DIAZ-REYNOSO v. BARR

No. 18-72833.

968 F.3d 1070 (2020)

Sontos Maudilia DIAZ-REYNOSO, aka Sontos Maurilla Diaz-Reynoso, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 7, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary A. Watt , Stephen Tollafield , and Tiffany J. Gates , Supervising Counsel; Shandyn H. Pierce and Hilda Kajbaf , Certified Law Students; Hastings Appellate Project, San Francisco, California; for Petitioner.

Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; John S. Hogan and Linda S. Wernery , Assistant Directors; Susan Bennett Green , Senior Litigation Counsel; Ashley Martin , Trial Attorney; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

Blaine Bookey , Karen Musalo , Neela Chakravartula , and Anne Peterson , Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, U.S. Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Center for Gender & Refugee Studies.

Richard W. Mark , Amer S. Ahmed , Grace E. Hart , and Cassarah M. Chu , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York New York, for Amici Curiae Thirty-Nine Former Immigration Judges and Members of the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Sabrineh Ardalan , Nancy Kelly , John Willshire Carrera , Deborah Anker , and Zachary A. Albun , Attorneys; Rosa Baum , Caya Simonsen , and Ana Sewell , Supervised Law Students; Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts; for Amicus Curiae Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program.

Ana C. Reyes and Alexander J. Kasner , Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alice Farmer , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Bress.


OPINION

Sontos Maudilia Diaz-Reynoso, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) order dismissing her appeal of an Immigration Judge's (IJ) order denying her application for withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Diaz...

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