DIAZ ORTIZ v. GARLAND

No. 19-1620.

23 F.4th 1 (2022)

Cristian Josue DIAZ ORTIZ, Petitioner, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 10, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kristin M. Beale , with whom Ellen A. Scordino and DLA Piper LLP were on brief, for petitioner.

Benjamin Mark Moss , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Brian M. Boynton , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and John W. Blakeley , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Sameer Ahmed , with whom Philip L. Torrey and the Crimmigration Clinic/Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program were on brief, for amici curiae Constitutional and Immigration Law Professors.

Kirsten V. Mayer , Ezra D. Geggel , and Ropes & Gray LLP on brief for amicus curiae Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Lynch, Lipez, Thompson, Kayatta, Barron, and Gelpí, Circuit Judges.


Opinion En Banc

Cristian Josue Diaz Ortiz, a native of El Salvador, seeks review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the denial of his claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). The Immigration Judge's ("IJ...

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