B.C. v. ATTY. GEN. U.S.

Nos. 19-1408, 20-2078.

12 F.4th 306 (2021)

B.C., Petitioner v. ATTORNEY GENERAL UNITED STATES of America.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion filed: September 1, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin J. Hooper , Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center, 294 Pleasant Acres Road, Suite 202, York, PA 17402, Arthur N. Read , Justice at Work, 990 Spring Garden Street, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19123, Sozi P. Tulante (Argued), Dechert, 2929 Arch Street, 18th Floor, Cira Centre, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Counsel for Petitioner.

Merrick Garland , Carmel A. Morgan , Lisa Morinelli , Tim Ramnitz (Argued), United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, P.O. Box 878, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C. 20044, Counsel for Respondent.

Matthew J. Lamberti , Community Justice Project, 100 Fifth Avenue, Suite 900, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Counsel for Amici American Immigration Council, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Casa San Jose, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, National Immigrant Justice Center, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, and Unitarian Universalist Congregation of York.

Michael Broadbent , Cozen O'Connor, 1650 Market Street, One Liberty Place, Suite 2800, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Counsel for Amici Guatemalan-Maya Center, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Kids in Need of Defense, and Southern Poverty Law Center.

Mary Beth Lyon , Cornell Law School Clinical Program, 133 Hughes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, Counsel for Amici Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Public Justice Center, Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition, and Dolores Street Community Services.

Edward J. Sholinsky , Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, 1600 Market Street, Suite 3600, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Counsel for Amici HIAS Pennsylvania, Esperanza Immigration Legal Services, Chris Rabb, AFRICOM, and VietLead.

Sarah H. Paoletti , University of Pennsylvania School of Law Transnational Legal Clinic, 3501 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Counsel for Amici Zeid Al Hussein, Fernando Chang-Muy, Juan Mendez, Jennifer Moore, Anne C. Richard, David Robinson, Michel Gabaudan, Ian Matthew Kysel, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Eric Schwartz.

Before: AMBRO, KRAUSE, and PHIPPS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

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