United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision affirming denial of cancellation of removal is granted and remanded where an error of law occurred in the Board's decision, as facts important to the determination of exceptional and extremely unusual hardship were totally overlooked and others were seriously mischaracterized.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/12/2007
• Decided 05/08/2009
• Published 05/08/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: McLAUGHLIN, CALABRESI, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Martin L. Rothstein, Barst & Mukamal, LLP (Dan Lundy, on the brief), New York, N.Y., for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer Paisner, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Respondents.