May 18, 2013

Tenth Circuit: Opinion Revised – Immigrant Ineligible for Asylum; Failed to Prove Attack Was Political Persecution

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals revised its opinion in Rivera-Barrientos v. Holder, Jr. on Wednesday, January 11, 2012.

The Tenth Circuit granted the petition for panel rehearing in part for the limited purpose of revising text in the first paragraph on page 10 in the original opinion filed on September 7, 2011. Otherwise, the petition for rehearing was denied. The petition for en banc rehearing was denied. The motion for leave to appear and file a brief as amicus curiae in support of petitioner’s rehearing petition was granted.

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