United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's denial of petitioner's application for cancellation of removal, the petition is granted where petitioner's conviction under California Penal Code section 273a(b) was not categorically a "crime of child abuse" within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2009
• Decided 08/12/2009
• Published 08/12/2009

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVID R. THOMPSON, MARSHA S. BERZON and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Samuel Uchenna Ogbu (argued), Dozie Ike Ezeife (on briefs), Emeziem & Ogbu, APC, Emeryville, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jem C. Sponzo (argued), Peter D. Keisler, Michelle G. Latour, Keith I. Bernstein (on briefs), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.