Cases

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JORDAN MELODY DAWOUD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 24-2054 (RDM) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Plaintiff Jordan Melody Dawoud, a citizen of the United States, filed

561 F.3d 31 (2009) Nicolas Hanna DAWOUD, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr.[*], Attorney General, Respondent. No. 08-1262. United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit. Submitted December 5, 2008. Decided March 26, 2009. *32 Saher J. Macarius, Audrey Botros and Law Offices of Saher J. Macarius, on bri

WOOD, Circuit Judge. Ehab Dawoud was detained and beaten first by Islamic radicals and then by the state security services after a video of his Christian wedding aired on an Egyptian television station. Dawoud and his wife, Amani Refaat, fled Egypt for the United States and applied for asylum after overstaying their visitors’ visas, claiming that they had been persecuted because o

LYNCH, Circuit Judge. Laura and Manuel Lemus, both natives of Guatemala, were ordered removed by an immigration judge (IJ) in 2000. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denied their appeal in 2001. Since then, the Lemuses have filed seventeen motions with the BIA to reopen or reconsider that *17

KANNE, Circuit Judge. Tao Chen, a 39-year-old Chinese citizen, petitions for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”), which upheld Immigration Judge (“U”) Robert D. Vinikoor’s denial of Chen’s application for asylum and withholding of removal. 1 The IJ ruled Chen’s

BARRON, Circuit Judge. Petitioner Juan Carlos Shul-Navarro, a native and citizen of El Salvador, seeks review of a Board of Immigration Appeals decision that dismissed his appeal from an Immigration Judge’s order that would re *147 move him from the United States.

POSNER, Circuit Judge. In the year ending on the date of the argument, different panels of this court reversed the Board of Immigration Appeals in whole or part in a staggering 40 percent of the 136 petitions to review the Board that were resolved on the merits. The corresponding figure, for the 82 civil cases during this period in which the United States was the appellee, was 1

680 F.3d 799 (2012) Leonida M. SARMIENTO and Romeo L. Sarmiento, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent. No. 11-2841. United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Argued April 25, 2012. Decided May 21, 2012. *800 Shannon M. Shepherd (argued), Attorney, Immigrati

(2008) Khaled S. SAWAN, Plaintiff, v. Michael CHERTOFF, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, et al., Defendants. Civil Action No. H-08-1550. United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division. November 18, 2008. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge. The plaintiff, Khaled S. Sawan, has been a lawful perman

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge. Mohamadou Tandia petitions for review of the order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA” or “Board”) denying his applications for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) and ordering his removal from the United States. Mr. Tan-dia claimed that he suffered persecution in his home country of Mauritania and

575 F.3d 107 (2009) Ariel Michael PUNZALAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr.,[*] Attorney General, Respondent. No. 08-2277. United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit. Submitted June 5, 2009. Decided August 5, 2009. *108 Lisa D. Dubowski and ASK Law Group, on brief for petitioner. Tim Ramni

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge. Petitioner Amma Adu Gyamfi ("Gyamfi") challenges the Board of Immigration Appeals's ("BIA") denial of her motion to reopen and its decision not to exercise its sua sponte authority to reopen her case and grant her request for an adjustment of status. For the reasons we detail below, we deny and dismiss Gyamfi's petition. BACKGROUN

EVANS, Circuit Judge. Bouya Ngazala Ikama-Obambi, a citizen of the Republic of Congo and the daughter of that country’s former Secretary of Health (and a director of the World Health Organization for Africa as well) applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The IJ denied her asylum application as untimely and denied her with

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge. Mamadou T. Diallo, a native and citizen of Guinea, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming the Immigration Judge’s denial of his application for asylum, withholding of *765 removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. Since

WOOD, Circuit Judge. Cahit Durgac, a Kurdish university student from Turkey, applied for asylum on behalf of himself and his wife, Ozgur Yasar, contending that he was detained and beaten by the Turkish security services because he formed a Kurdish study group. The Immigration Judge (IJ) denied the application, finding that Durgac was not credible and that he did not have a well-fo

576 F.3d 54 (2009) Iqbal HUSSAIN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr.,[*] Attorney General, Respondent. No. 08-2214. United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit. Submitted June 26, 2009. Decided August 7, 2009. *55 Carlos E. Estrada, on brief for the petitioner. Anthony W. Norwood, Senior Litig

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge. Soon after getting married, the petitioners fled their home country of Cameroon and sought asylum in the United States because the bride’s mother insisted — to the point of death threats — that the bride be circumcised. Irene Agbor refused, calling the process of female circumcision “a violent ritual mutilation of the female genitalia.” Her husband, Terr

FLAUM, Circuit Judge. Ghulam Mustafa and his family seek review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals in which the Board affirmed the immigration judge’s denial of their applications for asylum and withhold *745 ing of removal. Mustafa, a citizen of Pakistan and member of the Nawaz facti

Opinion by Judge B. FLETCHER; Dissent by Judge CALLAHAN. OPINION B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge: Elza Avagyan petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (BIA’s) denial as untimely of her motion to reopen removal proceedings to apply for adjustment of status, on account of ineffective assistance of counsel. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D). See De Mart

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________ No. 04-1339 JELLAL BENSLIMANE, Petitioner, v. ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Respondent. ____________ On Petition to Review an Order of the Board of Immigration Appe