United States Fifth Circuit

A petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision declining to reopen petitioner's removal proceedings is dismissed as petitioner has no right to effective assistance of counsel in obtaining a discretionary waiver of removal from the Attorney General.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH, WIENER and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas Allan Clarke (argued), San Antonio, TX, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Francis Paniszczyn (argued), San Antonio, TX, for Respondents-Appellees.