United States Ninth Circuit

In a deportation case, the Court reversed denial of plaintiff's motion to reopen, finding that because plaintiff has two United States citizen children and strong ties to the community, compelling circumstances exist in support of remand for consideration of plaintiff's application for suspension of deportation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/01/2004
• Decided 07/19/2004
• Published 07/19/2004

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge., Before GOODWIN, PREGERSON, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Raul E. Godinez, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Luis E. Perez, (Argued) and Edward C. Durant(Brief) Office of Immigration Litigation Civil Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.