United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of the BIA's denial of a motion to reopen asylum proceedings is denied where the petitioner was not entitled to equitable tolling of the 90-day period in which to file a motion to reopen since he did not show that a diligent attempt to comply with the deadline would have failed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/11/2007
• Decided 03/11/2008
• Published 03/11/2008

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Yongbing Zhang (argued), Wang, Leonard & Condon, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Blakeley (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.