NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP v. BIA

Docket No. 19-3248-cv August Term, 2020.

987 F.3d 207 (2021)

NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS, Executive Office for Immigration Review, United States Department of Justice, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 5, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott L. Nelson , Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C. ( Patrick D. Llewellyn , Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., Danielle Tarantolo , Jane Greengold Stevens , New York Legal Assistance Group, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Benjamin H. Torrance , Assistant United States Attorney, for Geoffrey S. Berman , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY ( Arastu K. Chaudhury , Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

William N. Lawton , Eubanks & Associates LLC, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae The Animal Welfare Institute and Farm Sanctuary.

Before: Jacobs, Lynch, and Park, Circuit Judges.


This case arises from the failure of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") to make its non-precedential opinions publicly available. Such "unpublished opinions" constitute the vast majority of the final decisions issued by the BIA each year, and are cited and relied upon...

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