PENAFIEL-PERALTA v. GARLAND

No. 23-1959.

115 F.4th 1 (2024)

Jose Vicente PENAFIEL-PERALTA; Monica Lourdes Castro-Pinda; G.E.P.C., Petitioners, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 12, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kristian R. Meyer, with whom Kevin P. MacMurray and MacMurray and Associates were on brief, for petitioners.

Allison Frayer, Senior Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Brian M. Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Jennifer Khouri, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Before Gelpí, Thompson, and Montecalvo, Circuit Judges.


A land dispute between Jose Vicente Penafiel-Peralta ("Penafiel-Peralta") and his sister Sandra Penafiel ("Sandra") ended with Penafiel-Peralta, his wife Monica Lourdes Castro-Pineda ("Castro-Pineda"),1 and their minor son G.E.P.C. being forced from their home in El Triunfo, Ecuador. Certain...

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