MEDINA-SUGUILANDA v. GARLAND

No. 23-2031.

121 F.4th 316 (2024)

Diana Fernanda MEDINA-SUGUILANDA; S.N.C.M., Petitioners, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

November 14, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kristian Robson Meyer, with whom Kevin P. MacMurray and MacMurray & Associates were on brief, for petitioners.

Robert Michael Stalzer, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Brian Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, and Julie M. Iversen, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

SangYeob Kim, with whom Gilles Bissonnette and American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire were on brief, for American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, amicus curiae.

Before Kayatta, Selya, and Aframe, Circuit Judges.


Diana Fernanda Medina-Suguilanda is an Ecuadorian woman who suffered domestic abuse in her home country. She has brought a petition for review challenging the administrative denial of her asylum application, which was based primarily on the contention that the Ecuadorian authorities would not, or could not, protect her

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