United States Ninth Circuit

In an immigration case, petition for review of denial of a request to cancel removal is granted and the case is ordered to mediation where petitioner's conviction for inflicting injury on a child did not bar her under from eligibility for cancellation of removal under section 237(a)(2)(E) of the Immigration Nationality Act because the conviction occurred before September 30, 1996.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/11/2008
• Decided 09/17/2008
• Published 09/17/2008

Judges

• THOMPSON, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: DAVID R. THOMPSON and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and BARRY T. MOSKOWITZ,District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eugenio Ramos, University of Santa Clara law student, supervised by Evangeline G. Abriel, supervising attorney, Santa Clara, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Fiorino, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.