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Grigoryan v. Sessions

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Apr 16, 2018
No. 13-71044 (9th Cir. Apr. 16, 2018)

Opinion

No. 13-71044

04-16-2018

GRIGOR GRIGORYAN, and LIANA UZUNYAN, Petitioners, v. JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.


NOT FOR PUBLICATION

Agency Nos. A097-871-710 A077-997-564 MEMORANDUM On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Before: SILVERMAN, PAEZ, and OWENS, Circuit Judges.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

Grigor Grigoryan and Liana Uzunyan, natives and citizens of Armenia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision summarily dismissing their appeal of an immigration judge's decision granting voluntary departure. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. 1252. We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to consider petitioners' challenges to the BIA's 2010 order denying their claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture, because this petition for review is not timely as to that order. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1) (petition for review must be filed no later than 30 days after the date of the final order of removal); Pinto v. Holder, 648 F.3d 976, 986 (9th Cir. 2011) (a BIA order denying relief from removal, but remanding for voluntary departure proceedings, is a final order of removal); Rizo v. Lynch, 810 F.3d 688, 691 (9th Cir. 2016) (clarifying that Abdisalan v. Holder, 774 F.3d 517 (9th Cir. 2014), does not disrupt the Pinto line of cases).

In their opening brief, petitioners do not challenge the BIA's 2013 order summarily dismissing their appeal. See Corro-Barragan v. Holder, 718 F.3d 1174, 1177 n.5 (9th Cir. 2013) (failure to contest issue in opening brief resulted in waiver).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part; DENIED in part.


Summaries of

Grigoryan v. Sessions

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Apr 16, 2018
No. 13-71044 (9th Cir. Apr. 16, 2018)
Case details for

Grigoryan v. Sessions

Case Details

Full title:GRIGOR GRIGORYAN, and LIANA UZUNYAN, Petitioners, v. JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS…

Court:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

Date published: Apr 16, 2018

Citations

No. 13-71044 (9th Cir. Apr. 16, 2018)

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