C.J.L.G. v. BARR

No. 16-73801.

923 F.3d 622 (2019)

C.J.L.G., A Juvenile Male, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 3, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ahilan T. Arulanantham (argued), ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Aaron E. Millstein and Theodore J. Angelis , K&L Gates LLP, Seattle, Washington; Glenda M. Aldana Madrid and Matt Adams , Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle, Washington; Stephen Kang , ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, California; Kristin Macleod-Ball , American Immigration Council, Boston, Massachusetts; Karolina Joanna Walters , American Immigration Council, Washington, DC; Talia Inlender and Kristen Jackson , Public Counsel, Los Angeles, California, for Petitioner.

Scott G. Stewart (argued) and W. Manning Evans , Senior Litigation Counsel; John W. Blakeley , Assistant Director; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

Nareeneh Sohbatian and John E. Schreiber , Winston & Strawn LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan S. Goldstein , Winston & Strawn LLP, San Francisco, California; for Amicus Curiae Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

Anne Dutton , Eunice Lee , Karen Musalo , and Blaine Bookey , Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Center for Gender & Refugee Studies.

Robert A. Brundage and Lucy Wang , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, San Francisco, California; Daniel Grunfeld , Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Amici Curiae Dr. Jennifer Woolard and Dr. Laurence Steinberg.

Lee Brand and Harrison "Buzz" Frahn , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Palo Alto, California, for Amici Curiae Former Federal Immigration Judges.

David W. Schecter and Brian A. Procel , Miller Barondess LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae Professor Kevin Lapp , Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, et al.

Eric Tuttle , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jonathan Meltzer , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Constitutional Law and Procedure Scholars Judith Resnik and Brian Soucek.

Dissent by Judge Callahan


OPINION

A gang held 14-year-old C.J.L.G. ("CJ") at gunpoint in his native Honduras and threatened to kill his family after he rejected recruitment attempts. CJ and his mother Maria then fled their homeland and sought asylum in the United States. Although finding CJ...

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