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Castellanos-Ventura v. Garland, No. 21-6293 (2d Cir. Sept. 13, 2024)

• Honduran women; harm by family as a child; failure to report as a child; unable or unwilling to protect; erroneous reliance on State Department report; failure to consider conflicting evidence

Patel v. Garland, No. 23-3461 (6th Cir. Sept. 10, 2024)

• I-601; adjustment of status; Patel; jurisdiction; judicial bias; manner of entry; erroneous factual finding and legal error

Lopez v. Garland, No. 23-870 (9th Cir. Sept. 11, 2024)

• Reno Municipal Code § 8.10.040 petty theft; INA § 237(a)(2)(A)(ii); Diaz-Lizaragga and CIMT definition; Skidmore deference; availability of pardon; single scheme of criminal conduct; persecution suffered in utero as a fetus

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Matter of R-T-P-, 28 I&N Dec. 828 (BIA 2024)

• deficient NTA; claims processing rule; termination; IJ amending NTA

United States v. Perez Garcia, No. 23-435 (9th Cir. Sept. 4, 2024)

• crime of violence; recklessness; Borden; Cal. Pen. Code § 245(a)(1) assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm; intent, knowing; mens rea

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Mouns v. Garland, No. 22-1368 (4th Cir. Aug. 28, 2024)

• changed country condition motion to reopen; L-O-G-; prima facie standard; Coelho; reasonable likelihood; Yemen

Matter of D. Rodriguez, 28 I&N Dec. 815 (BIA 2024)

• attempt; crimes of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment; context; statutory interpretation; Congressional silence; Texas attempt; Tx Pen. Code §§ 15.01(a) and 22.04(a)(1); consideration of police reports in discretionary analysis

Momin v. Jaddou, No. 23-20327 (5th Cir. Aug. 28, 2024)

• Patel; incorrect birthdates; adjustment of status; I-601 waiver; INA § 242(a)(2)(B)(i)

Silva Pazine v. Garland, No. 23-1894 (1st Cir. Aug. 27, 2024)

• nexus; harm in the U.S.; domestic violence; Brazilian Women particular social group; mixed motive; misogyny in Brazil

Dominguez Ojeda v. Garland, No. 23-835 (9th. Cir. Aug. 29, 2024)

• discretion to consider new evidence during reasonable fear interview review

Meza-Carmona v. Garland, No. 20-73293 (9th Cir. Aug. 26, 2024)

• physically present; continuous period; U.S. citizenship law in 1968; permissible inference 

Zia v. Garland, No. 21-1325 (9th Cir. Aug. 26, 2024)

• I-751 waiver review; INA §§ 242(a)(2)(B)(i), (ii); adverse credibility; Patel; Wilkinson; jurisdiction 

Lall v. USCIS, No. 20-2051 (3rd Cir. Aug. 27, 2024)

• U.S. citizenship revocation; derivative citizenship through adoptive parents; equitable estoppel

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Aben v. Garland, No. 20-60937 (5th Cir. Aug. 20, 2024)

• Asylum; withholding of removal; CAT; imputed political opinion; substantial evidence; past persecution; nexus; corroborating evidence; Anglophone; Cameroon

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Bent v. Garland, No. 22-1910 (9th Cir. Aug. 15, 2024)

• Cal. Pen. Code § 1473.7(a)(1); equitably tolling for motion to reopen where criminal conviction vacated; due diligence; extraordinary circumstance 

United States v. Manzano, No. 23-6073 (10th Cir. Aug. 13, 2024)

• generic definition of murder; Oklahoma second degree murder in violation of Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 701.8; killing in commission of a non-dangerous felony

Bernardo-De La Cruz v. Garland, No. 21-1621 (7th Cir. Aug. 15, 2024)

• voluntary departure; 8 C.F.R. § 1240.26(i); temporary BIA member; Appointment’s Clause; not considering relocation hardship when children will remain for non-LPR cancellation; legal error and “completely ignored” evidence

Penafiel-Peralta v. Garland, No. 23-1959 (1st Cir. Aug. 12, 2024)

• mixed motive; nexus; land dispute; family membership; Ecuador 

Lemus-Aguilar v. Garland, No. 23-1799 (1st Cir. Aug. 12, 2024)

• nexus; single, Salvadoran mothers with no familial protection; criminal gang activity; El Salvador

Charles v. Garland, No. 23-1857 (1st Cir. Aug. 15, 2024)

• review of the BIA’s denial of sua sponte reopening; failure to consider medical evidence; unpublished BIA decisions

Rosa v. Garland, No. 22-1523 (1st Cir. Aug. 16, 2024)

• adjustment of status; uncorroborated police reports; failure to follow BIA precedent; uncorroborated police reports to deny discretionary relief; Matter of Arreguin; Matter of Thomas; Fifth Amendment right not to testify when criminal charges pending

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Intro + Nakka, et al. v. USCIS (CA9) and United States v. Valdivias-Soto (CA9)

• Indian derivative visas and CSPA; translation errors in removal proceedings and right to counsel

United States v. Munoz, No. 22-11574 (11th Cir. Aug. 7, 2024)

• denaturalization; clearly erroneous; collateral estoppel; judicial estoppel; date of conspiracy and other criminal indictments; necessary for conviction

Joshi v. Garland, No. 23-1236 (4th Cir. Aug. 8, 2024)

• involuntary mental health confinement as persecution; prosecution as persecution; parens patriae; electroconvulsive therapy

Garcia Cortes v. Garland, No. 22-1930 (4th Cir. Aug. 7, 2024)

• exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; Wilkinson; review of whether IJ considered all evidence; rejecting expert therapist opinion and predictive findings

Bustos-Millan v. Garland, No. 21-2889 (7th Cir. Aug. 6, 2024)

• attorney unpreparedness; ineffective assistance of counsel; continuance; due process

Lafortune v. Garland, No. 23-1617 (1st Cir. Aug. 5, 2024)

• particularly serious crime; N-A-M- two-step analysis; elements based approach not required; conspiracy to commit bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349; CAT claims and Haiti

Gonzalez-Arevalo v. Garland, No. 23-1341 (1st Cir. Aug. 7, 2024)

• nexus; gang retribution against family; relying on speculative noncitizen testimony; mixed motive; Guatemala 

De Oliveira Rodrigues v. Garland, No. 23-2081 (1st Cir. Aug. 8, 2024)

• adverse credibility; omissions from credible fear interview; omissions from written affidavit; failure to corroborate; inconsistencies 

Tista-Ruiz de Ajualip v. Garland, No. 23-3274 (6th Cir. Aug. 9, 2024)

• IJ and BIA independent duty to review the record for viable PSG and anti-circularity; Matter of A-B-; domestic violence; Matter of W-Y-C-& H-O-B-; unable or unwilling; Guatemala 

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Save Jobs USA v. DHS, No. 23-5089 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 2, 2024)

• challenging DHS regulations; Washtech; H-4 employment authorization; Major Questions Doctrine; star decisis

Jani v. Garland, No. 22-1397 (1st Cir. July 30, 2024)

• material support of terrorism bar to asylum; fundamental fairness and due process; indiscernible transcript Jemaah Islamiya; appeal of only derivative grant but not lead grant; Chinese ethnicity; Indonesia

Dubon v. Jaddau, No. 22-2280 (4th Cir. July 29, 2024)

• INA § 336(b); naturalization delay; remand to the agency; interlocutory appeal

G. C. v. Garland, No. 21-1228 (9th Cir. July 30, 2024)

• particularly serious crime; consideration of mental health issues; felony assault in violation of Cal. Pen. Code § 245(a)(4); torture in the U.S.; fear of parent; Los Zetas; Mexico

Kumar v. Garland, No. 23-308 (9th Cir. Aug. 2, 2024)

• past persecution standard in the Ninth Circuit; no serious physical harm required; Mann party claims and Punjab; BJP; Sikh; India

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Shen v. Garland, No. 16-71315 (9th Cir. July 24, 2024)

• administrative notice of foreign law; forced abortion; 2003 change in law for Chinese premarital checkups; exhaustion of sub-arguments; Alam; credibility; mistaken memory may lead to change in testimony; DHS misstating facts on cross-examination  

Colin-Villavicencio v. Garland, No. 22-507 (9th Cir. July 23, 2024)

• derivative citizenship; former INA § 321 (repealed); Cheneau; paternity established by legitimation; Baja California Mexico Code

Gonzalez-Rivas v. Garland, No. 21-3364 (8th Cir. July 23, 2024)

• hardship standard; best interests of the child; mixed question of law and fact; Wilkinson

L.N. v. Garland, No. 23-60203 (5th Cir. July 25, 2024)

• standards of review; reweighing evidence; asylum; CAT analysis in the aggregate; Angola 

Castillo v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 23-2123 (3d Cir. July 24, 2024)

• petition for review venue; Matter of Garcia; filing of NTA; Costello

Sandoval Reynoso v. Garland, No. 23-2480 (7th Cir. July 23, 2024)

• non-LPR cancellation of removal; discretion; Patel; Kucana; Wilkinson

Elgebaly v. Garland, No. 24-0154 (6th Cir. July 23, 2024)

• Form I-751 waiver petitions; good faith marriage; Egyptian marriage; credibility; duty to develop record with pro se respondents; motion to reopen; Jarkesy

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Paye v. Garland, No. 23-1426 (1st Cir. July 17, 2024)

• flight from ethnic cleansing and genocide as past persecution; INA § 242(a)(2)(C) jurisdiction

Ramos-Gutierrez v. Garland, No. 23-1885 (1st Cir. July 18, 2024)

• particularly social group; nexus; circularity; example of what happens when you report on gangs in El Salvador 

Ortega-Cordova v. Garland, No. 22-1700 (4th Cir. July 16, 2024)

• evolving definition of CIMT; solicitation of prostitution in violation of VA Code § 18.2-346(B); federal definition of a felony; 18 U.S.C. § 3559(a)

Vera Punin v. Garland, No. 22-6275 (2d Cir. July 16, 2024)

• I-213; clear and convincing evidence; exhaustion of arguments; inherently reliable; alienage burden; temporary BIA member appointment exceeding six months

KC v. Garland, No. 20-3043 (2d Cir. July 17, 2024)

• unfulfilled-threat doctrine; cumulative or aggregate past persecution analysis; death threats; aggravating factors; threats against family

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