Legal Opinion

Rivas v. Napolitano

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided April 25, 2012No. 09-56843PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by Judge PREGERSON; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge BEA.

OPINION

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

Hilario Alfonso Rivas (“Rivas”) and his daughter Lorena Rivas appeal the district court’s order granting Defendants’ motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Rivas submitted an application for an immigrant visa based on an approved 1-130 petition filed by his daughter. The United States Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, denied Rivas’s immigrant visa application. Rivas moved the district court for an order compelling the Defendants to act upon Rivas’s Permission…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness AllianceSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  2. Siderman de Blake v. Republic of ArgentinaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1992
  3. Patel v. RenoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997
  4. Roberts v. CorrothersCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987
  5. Victoria Rosales Jesus Rosales Rebecca Rosales v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1987

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Rivas v. NapolitanoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2012
  2. Fauzia Din v. John F. KerryCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2013
  3. Fauzia Din v. John F. KerryCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2013
  4. Hilario Rivas v. Janet NapolitanoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2013
  5. Rivas v. NapolitanoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2012

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