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 and his outstanding motions denied where petitioner had no right to effective assistance of counsel in obtaining a discretionary waiver of removal from the Attorney General. (Substituted opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/21/2006
• Published 08/21/2006

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.