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Decided: June 1, 2016
The Fourth Circuit reversed and remanded the district court’s decision.
Sometime before 2005, Agustin Lopez-Collazo, a native Spanish speaker who understood little, if any, English, illegally entered the United States from …
Decided: May 19, 2016
The Fourth Circuit denied Ndibu’s petition for review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) which affirmed the immigration judge’s conclusion that Ndibu filed …
Decided: June 17, 2016
The Fourth Circuit dismissed in part and denied in part a petition.
In 1996, Garfield Lawrence was admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident. Lawrence, who is originally …
Decided: February 22, 2016
The Fourth Circuit denied in part and dismissed in part petitions for review of orders of the BIA.
In 1994, Petitioner, Wilerms Oxygene, along with his his family, sought refuge in …
Decided: February 16, 2016
The Fourth Circuit found that that the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) abused its discretion when the Board denied Petitioner’s motion to reopen his removal proceedings. The Court granted the …
Decided: December 30, 2015
The Fourth Circuit denied Petitioner Eddy Etienne’s (“Etienne”) petition for review.
In 1984, Etienne entered the United States as an illegal immigrant. In 1986, Etienne pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate …
Decided: December 4, 2015
The Fourth Circuit dismissed in part and denied in part.
The Fourth Circuit began by determining that the proper standard of review of BIA decisions was de novo, and that because …
Decided: December 2, 2015
In a case about continuing or closing an immigration removal proceeding for petitioner Madiagne Diop to receive a mental health evaluation, the Fourth Circuit found no error in the Immigration Judge’s …
Decided: November 20, 2015
The Fourth Circuit denied Hernandez-Zavala’s petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeal’s (BIA’s) order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ’s) pretermission of Hernandez-Zavala’s application for cancellation of removal.
On March …
Decided: July 23, 2015
The Fourth Circuit vacated Dominguez’s sentence and remanded for further proceedings
This case was an appeal from the district court decision in which Edgar Parrell-Dominguez (“Dominguez”), an illegal immigrant, was charged …
Decided: July 7, 2015
The district court sentenced Gerson Arturo Aplicano-Oyuela (“Aplicano”) to sixteen months in prison and three years of supervised release for an illegal reentry offense that followed his removal from the …
Decided: June 16, 2015
The Fourth Circuit denied the petition for review.
This case stemmed from an original notice to appear to Maria Yanez-Marquez (“Yanez”) an alleged illegal immigrant who was summoned to a removal …
Decided: June 10, 2015
The Fourth Circuit held that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) erred as a matter of law in concluding that Petitioner’s conviction of child abuse qualified as an aggravated felony, and …
Decided: May 14, 2015
The Fourth Circuit held that the statutory maximum term of imprisonment set by Congress, not the top sentence in the Sentencing Guidelines range, is determinative of whether a defendant committed a …
Decided: April 30, 2015
The Fourth Circuit vacated a final order of removal entered by the Board of Immigration Appeals and remanded the case for further proceedings.
The appeal arose out of Hernandez’s and her …