United States Fifth Circuit

With regards to eligibility for cancellation of removal, Congress has stripped courts of jurisdiction to review the Attorney General's discretionary decisions under the battered spouse provision, 8 U.S.C. section 1229b(b)(2).

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/05/2006
• Published 07/06/2006

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before DeMOSS, BENAVIDES and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian K. Bates, Quan, Burdette & Perez, Houston, TX, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Clifford Cunningham, Luis Enrique Perez, Thomas Ward Hussey, Dir., Linda Susan Wendtland, OIL, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div. Imm. Lit., Washington, DC, Caryl G. Thompson, U.S. INS, Attn: Joe A. Aguilar, New Orleans, LA, Sharon A. Hudson, U.S. Citizenship & Imm. Services, Houston, TX, for Respondent.