Legal Opinion

Najmabadi v. Holder

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided March 9, 2010No. 05-72401PublishedCited by 496 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by Judge MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Dissent by Judge HARRY PREGERSON.

MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:

Petitioner, Farangis Najmabadi, a native and citizen of Iran, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (BIA or Board) order denying her motion to reopen her removal proceedings on the basis of changed conditions in Iran. Because we hold that Najmabadi failed to introduce previously unavailable, material evidence, we deny her petition for review.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Najmabadi was admitted to the United States on October 5, 1986, as a non-immigrant visitor with…

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