United States Tenth Circuit

Petition for review of a decision finding petitioner ineligible for cancellation of removal, under the battered spouse provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, is dismissed in part for lack of jurisdiction to review specific Board of Immigration Appeals discretionary determinations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/25/2005
• Published 11/28/2005

Judges

• ANDERSON, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, ANDERSON, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Neslin, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Denver, Colorado (Leonor Perretta, Utzinger & Perretta, PLLC, Salt Lake City, UT, on the briefs) for Petitioner., David Neslin, Arnold & Porter, Denver, CO, Leslie M. Hill and Mona Luddy Benach, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, Dan Kesselbrenner and Gail Pendleton, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA, Leslye Orloff and Joyce Noche, Now Legal Defense and Education Fund, Washington, DC, filed a brief on behalf of Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• John C. Cunningham, Senior Litigation Counsel (Linda S. Wendtland, Assistant Director, with him on the briefs), United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.