United States Eighth Circuit

Petition for review of an order denying plaintiff's request for a continuance and motion to terminate removal proceedings is denied where: 1) challenge to the denial of continuance is not properly before the court as plaintiff failed to raise the issue before the Board of Immigration Appeals; and 2) it is unclear as to whether the court has the authority to consider whether the immigration judge erred in denying petitioner's motion to terminate removal proceedings, but if it did have the authority, the IJ did not abuse her discretion in denying the request.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/20/2009
• Published 04/20/2009

Judges

• COLLOTON, Circuit Judge., Before COLLOTON, BRIGHT, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas R. Anderson, III, argued, Minneapolis MN, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Aviva Poczter, argued, Patrick James Glen, Gregory G. Katsas and Emily Anne Radford, on the brief, Washington, DC., for respondent.