RECINOS v. ESCOBAR

No. SJC-11986.

473 Mass. 734 (2016)

LILIANA MARIBEL RIVERA RECINOS, vs. MARIA ISABEL RECINOS ESCOBAR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

March 4, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Badger for the plaintiff.

Mary K. Ryan , Cynthia M. Guizzetti , & Mara O'Malley , for American Immigration Lawyers Association & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Gants, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Duffly, Lenk, & Hines, JJ.


In this case, we are asked to determine whether the Probate and Family Court Department has jurisdiction over youth between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one to make special findings that are necessary to apply for special immigrant juvenile (SIJ) status under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(27)(J) (2012). Congress created the SIJ classification...

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