United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's order denying petitioner's application for cancellation of removal, the petition is denied where petitioner's violation of a domestic restraining order qualified as a violation of a "protection order" under 8 U.S.C. section 1227(a)(2)(E)(ii).

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/24/2008
• Decided 07/16/2009
• Published 07/16/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before A. WALLACE TASHIMA and MILAN D. SMITH, Jr., Circuit Judges, and GEORGE H. WU, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Teresa A. Statler, Immigration Law Office of Teresa A. Statler, Portland, OR, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wendy Benner-Leon, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C. for the respondent.