United States Ninth Circuit

In an action arising from removal proceedings, dismissal of Mexican citizen's habeas petition for lack of jurisdiction under the REAL ID Act is affirmed on the grounds that petitioner failed to exhaust the administrative remedies that were available to him, and thus his claim was not properly before the district court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2007
• Decided 05/24/2007
• Published 05/24/2007

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge., Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, DOROTHY W. NELSON, and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Todd Bennett, El Cerrito, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edward A. Olsen, United States Department of Justice, United States Attorney's Office, San Francisco, CA;  Papu Sandhu, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondents-appellees.