HERNANDEZ v. GARLAND

No. 20-3575.

28 F.4th 917 (2022)

Alberto Dominguez HERNANDEZ, Petitioner, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: March 18, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian J. Blackford , Blackford Law, Omaha, NE, Tiffany J. Lieu , Trina A. Realmuto , National Immigration Litigation Alliance, Brookline, MA, for Petitioner.

Peter B. Berg , U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Bloomington, MN, Rachel Berman-Vaporis , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, Carl H. McIntyre , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before BENTON, KELLY, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges.


Alberto Dominguez Hernandez petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") denial of his application for cancellation of removal. He asserts the BIA committed three errors in upholding the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") good moral character determination: (1) it applied the wrong standard of review; (2) it...

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