ABUBAKER ABUSHAGIF v. GARLAND

No. 19-60807.

15 F.4th 323 (2021)

Muntaser B. ABUBAKER ABUSHAGIF, Petitioner, v. Merrick GARLAND, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED September 24, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alison R. Caditz , Attorney, Perkins Coie, L.L.P., Jeri Leigh Miller , Sidley Austin, L.L.P., for Petitioner.

Christina Petersen Greer , Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, Paul Randolph Perkins , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Papu Sandhu , Senior Litigation Counsel, Jane Tracey Schaffner , U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before Smith, Higginson, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.


Muntaser Abushagif, a Libyan national, applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT") in September 2011. At his hearing, he voluntarily withdrew his application and agreed to pre-conclusion voluntary departure; the immigration judge ("I.J.") ordered him to leave...

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