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Liang v. Ashcroft

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Oct 15, 2003
78 F. App'x 577 (9th Cir. 2003)

Opinion

Argued and Submitted Oct. 6, 2003.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION. (See Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 36-3)

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Agency Nos. A75-318-374, A75-318-375.

Joren Lyons, Angela M. Bean & Associates, San Francisco, CA, Robert Kuan Liang, pro se, Chun-Mei Hsu Liang, pro se, San Bruno, CA, for Petitioners.

Regional Counsel, Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel, San Francisco, CA, Jamie M. Dowd, Anthony W. Norwood, Esq., DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.


Before: HUG, B. FLETCHER, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

MEMORANDUM

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

Petitioners challenge the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") denial of their motion to reopen, which argued that they received ineffective assistance of counsel. At oral argument, petitioners' current

Page 578.

counsel conceded that this case is governed by our recent decision in Vasquez-Zavala v. Ashcroft, 324 F.3d 1105, 1107-08 (9th Cir.2003), and that as a result, the BIA judgment should be affirmed. We therefore deny the petition for review.

AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

Liang v. Ashcroft

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Oct 15, 2003
78 F. App'x 577 (9th Cir. 2003)
Case details for

Liang v. Ashcroft

Case Details

Full title:Robert Kuan LIANG, a/k/a Robert Kuan-Wei Liang; et al., Petitioners, v…

Court:United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Date published: Oct 15, 2003

Citations

78 F. App'x 577 (9th Cir. 2003)