United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of the BIA's denial of petitioner's motion to reopen on the basis that she lacked the effective assistance of counsel is granted, and case remanded, where the BIA erred in determining that petitioner suffered no prejudice as a result of her counsel's ineffectiveness.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/22/2008
• Decided 11/19/2008
• Published 11/19/2008

Judges

• D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before:  MARY M. SCHROEDER, D.W. NELSON, and STEPHEN REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Jobe (argued), Arwen A. Swink and Lina Baroudi (Law Clerk), Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, for petitioner., Corey L. Farrell, Office of Immigration Litigation, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.;  Anthony Norwood, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Washington D.C., for the government.