Legal Opinion
Jobe v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 30, 2001No. 99-1064PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION EN BANC
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Sulay Jobe failed to appear at his deportation hearing and was ordered deported in absentia. More than eight months later, Jobe filed a motion to reopen asking that his deportation order be rescinded. In support of the motion, Jobe alleged that ineffective assistance of counsel had caused him to miss the deportation hearing. An immigration judge (“IJ”) denied the motion as untimely because, by statute, such motions must be filed within 180 days of the deportation order. Jobe appealed, contending that the same attorney incompetence that caused him…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Irwin v. Department of Veterans AffairsSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Stanislav Iavorski v. United States Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
- Carl Kale v. Combined Insurance Company of America, Carl Kale v. Combined Insurance Company of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1988
- Ruben Lopez v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1999
- Bernal-Vallejo v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1999
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3Cited by73 opinions
- Oscar Socop-Gonzalez v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2001
- Nicolas Rodriguez-Lariz Maria De Jesus Guevara-Martinez v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2002
- Jose Borges v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2005
- Jian Hua Wang v. Board of Immigration AppealsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2007
- Boakai v. GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2006
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