Legal Opinion
Mendoza Ramirez v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 19, 2009No. 05-71740PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM **
1. This court lacks jurisdiction to review the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”)’s affirmance of the Immigration Judge’s denial of the petitioners’ request for administrative closure. Diaz-Covarrubias v. Mukasey, 551 F.3d 1114, 1120 (9th Cir.2009) (citing Ekimian v. INS, 303 F.3d 1153, 1159 (9th Cir.2002)). As this court has stated, under such “administrative closure,” an immigration judge or the Board “removes a case from its docket as a matter of ‘administrative convenience.’ ” Id. at 1116 (citing In re Gutierrez-Lopez, 21 I. & N. Dec. 479, 480 (BIA 1996)). The Board has…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Tigran Ekimian Rouzan Nagapetian Avetis Hekimian v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2002
- Mario Antonio Portillo Baires v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- GUTIERREZBoard of Immigration Appeals · 1996
- Diaz-Covarrubias v. MukaseyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2009
- A-PBoard of Immigration Appeals · 1999
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3Cited by1 opinion
- CASTRO-TUMBoard of Immigration Appeals · 2018