GOMEZ-MEDINA v. HOLDER

No. 10-2246.

687 F.3d 33 (2012)

Yenny Adriana GOMEZ-MEDINA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin B. Tairi on brief for petitioner.

Manuel A. Palau , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice, and Terri J. Scanlon , Assistant Director, Civil Division, on brief for respondent.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, BOUDIN and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

Yenny Adriana Gomez-Medina, a Colombian national and citizen, petitions for review of a September 21, 2010, final order of removal by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). Petitioner and her counsel ignored and failed to comply with direct orders from the Immigration Judge (IJ), who found their purported justifications for non-compliance far from adequate. The IJ denied a last-minute request to continue the long-scheduled hearing and deemed Gomez...

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