Legal Opinion
Vaz dos Reis v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 21, 2010No. 09-2536PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Luiz Carlos Vaz dos Reis, a Brazilian national, seeks judicial review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which affirmed the denial by an immigration judge (IJ) of his motion to reopen removal proceedings. The petitioner asserts that he did not receive notice of a scheduled hearing before the IJ; that the IJ erred by refusing to rescind the ensuing in absentia removal order and reopen his case; and that the BIA compounded the error by improvidently upholding the IJ’s order. Discerning no misuse of the agency’s considerable discretion in…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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3Cited by20 opinions
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