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Decided: December 17, 2013
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s denial of defendant’s application for asylum and withholding of removal based on his claim that government officials would sterilize him if …
Decided: December 18, 2013
The Fourth Circuit held that Carlos Perez-Perez’s (“Perez-Perez”) prior conviction of indecent liberties with a minor, in violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.1, constituted a crime of violence, and warranted …
Decided: December 11, 2013
The Fourth Circuit held that the record contained sufficient evidence to trigger Nicolas Rene Pastora-Hernandez’s (“Pastora”) burden to prove that he did not engage in persecution in his home country, and …
Decided: December 11, 2013
The Fourth Circuit upheld the district court’s decision to deny the application of naturalization for Lakshmi Injeti, finding that she was never lawfully admitted for permanent residence based on misrepresentations about …
Decided: October 29, 2013
In a case of first impression, the Fourth Circuit held that the Fleuti doctrine did not survive the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act’s (“IIRIRA”) enactment of 8 U.S.C. § …
Decided: October 16, 2013
The Fourth Circuit denied Baltazar Olea Garcia’s petition for review of an order by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) that rejected his application for cancellation of removal on the ground …
Decided: October 16, 2013
The Fourth Circuit denied Svetlana Kuusk’s untimely petition for review of a removal order by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”).
Svetlana Kuusk entered the United States in 2003 on a …
Decided: July 23, 2013
The Fourth Circuit held that, under the Supremacy Clause, the Lowcountry Immigration Coalition (“the Coalition”) had an implied right of action allowing them to seek enjoinment of South Carolina’s Act 69 …
Decided: June 12, 2013
The Fourth Circuit affirmed Appellant Al Sabahi’s conviction on four courts for knowingly possessing firearms while unlawfully present in the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(5)(a) and 924(a)(2). …
Date Decided: May 13, 2013
The Fourth Circuit vacated the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) final order of removal of Ali Sina Karimi with instructions to reinstate Karimi’s asylee status.
Karimi is a citizen of …
Decided: April 24, 2013
The Fourth Circuit affirmed the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) denial of Suarez-Valenzuela’s application for withholding of removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The Fourth Circuit held that the BIA …
Decided: December 14, 2012
Defendant Nicolas Carpio-Leon, an illegal alien “indicted for possessing firearms while being ‘illegally or unlawfully in the United States,’” appealed his guilty plea based on his contention that 18 U.S.C. § …
Decided: December 13, 2012
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the judgment of the district court ruling that the defendant’s previous state conviction of a criminal threat was a “prior crime of violence,” justifying …
Decided: November 19, 2012
The Fourth Circuit denied Adriano de Almeida Viegas’s petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) denial of Viagas’s petition to obtain relief from removal under the Immigration and …
Decided: November 9, 2012
Martin Mendoza Leiba (“Mendoza”) petitioned the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to review a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (the “Board”). The Board affirmed the ruling of an immigration …