FIGUEROA v. GARLAND

No. 22-1272.

119 F.4th 160 (2024)

Jose Mauricio FIGUEROA, Petitioner, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 17, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Warren for petitioner.

Timothy Bo Stanton, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Brian M. Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Anthony P. Nicastro, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Cody Wofsy, Hannah Schoen, Lee Gelernt, Matthew R. Segal, Adriana Lafaille, Gilles Bissonnette, and SangYeob Kim, were on brief for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, and American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amici curiae.

Before Barron, Chief Judge, Howard and Gelpí, Circuit Judges.


Jose Mauricio Figueroa, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the denial of his application for special rule cancellation of removal under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA). Specifically, Figueroa takes issue with the agency's determination that he was ineligible for...

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