SOLORZANO v. MAYORKAS

No. 19-50220.

987 F.3d 392 (2021)

Luis Orlando Rodriguez SOLORZANO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alejandro MAYORKAS, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, In His Official Capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security of The United States; Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Robert Cowan, In His Official Capacity as Director of the National Benefits Center; David Roark, In His Official Capacity as Director of the Texas Service Center; Margaret A. Hartnett, In Her Official Capacity as Director of the El Paso Field Office; United States of America, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED February 3, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeanne M. Morales , Law Office of Jeanne Morales, Midland, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

P. Angel Martinez , Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation — District Court Section, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Mary A. Kenney , Kristin Macleod-Ball , National Immigration Litigation Alliance, Brookline, MA, for Amici Curiae.

Before Elrod, Southwick, and Haynes, Circuit Judges.


Luis Rodriguez Solorzano, a native of Honduras, challenged the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service's denial of his application to obtain lawful-permanent-resident status in district court. The government moved to dismiss Solorzano's lawsuit, but the district court...

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