Opinion

Fidel Bibiano v. Loretta E. Lynch

  • 834 F.3d 966
  • 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 15260
  • 2016 WL 4409351
Court
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Filed
Aug 19, 2016
Status
Published
Author
Callahan
On the bench
Pregerson, Tashima, Callahan
Nature of suit
Agency
Cited by
14 cases

holding that, consistent with nine other federal circuits, including the Fifth Circuit, INA § 242(b)(2), requiring petition for review of orders of removal be filed with the court of appeals for the judicial circuit in which the IJ completed the proceedings, is a non-jurisdictional venue provision, and thus, the Ninth Circuit had jurisdiction over the applicant’s claim even if venue was proper in the Eleventh Circuit

How later courts described this case

  • holding that, consistent with nine other federal circuits, including the Fifth Circuit, INA § 242(b)(2), requiring petition for review of orders of removal be filed with the court of appeals for the judicial circuit in which the IJ completed the proceedings, is a non-jurisdictional venue provision, and thus, the Ninth Circuit had jurisdiction over the applicant’s claim even if venue was proper in the Eleventh Circuit
  • holding that, consistent with nine other federal circuits, including the Fifth Circuit, INA § 242(b)(2
  • holding that 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b)(2)’s venue provision is not jurisdictional, but contrasting the venue statue with other 9 statutes in the INA that use the terms “judicial review” or “jurisdiction”
  • holding that 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b)(2)’s venue provision is not jurisdictional, but contrasting the venue statute with other statutes in the INA that use the terms “judicial review” or “jurisdiction”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge,

concurring:

I concur fully with the majority that 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b)(2)’s venue provision is not jurisdictional and that we have subject matter jurisdiction over Bibiano’s claim even though venue is not proper here. I also concur fully with the majority’s decision to remand to the BIA and that our remand does not foreclose the BIA from considering any further issues which the parties may properly raise including which circuit’s law governs this case on remand.

Although I favored transferring the case to the Eleventh Circuit, I accept the remand to the BIA because the government conceded that remand to the BIA was appropriate. I write separately to emphasize my concern that this decision should not be read to encourage forum shopping. Rather, such petitions for review may only be filed, as we held, in “the circuit where the IJ completes proceedings rendering the reinstated removal order final.” Opinion 12-18.

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