6th circuit

6^th Circuit

Sejdini v. Holder (6^th Circuit, April 19, 2013)
MARTIN, Gilman, Fowlkes

6th Circuit

Villegas v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville (6th Cir. Mar. 4, 2013)
CLAY Gibbons White (dissenting)

Summary: Plaintiff brought a 1983 lawsuit against Nashville after police officers kept her in handcuffs while she went into labor.  (She was kept in handcuffs because she was a “medium status” detainee, due to an immigration detainer.)  The District Court granted summary judgment to her, and a jury awarded $200,000.  The Sixth Circuit reversed the grant of Summary Judgment.

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Camara v. Holder (6th Circuit, January 15, 2013)

KEITH, Batchelder, Martin

Summary: The Sixth Circuit denied the petition for review of a husband and wife from Mali who argued that the immigration judge and Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) had erred in failing to consider the husband’s eligibility for derivative withholding of removal or his independent eligibility for withholding.

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Dieng v. Holder (6th Circuit November 8, 2012)

GRIFFIN, Sutton, Norris

Summary: The Sixth Circuit affirmed the agency’s denial of asylum withholding of removal and CAT relief, finding that Senegalese petitioner had not established a well-founded fear future persecution for herself or her daughter based on the prospect of being subjected to female genital mutilation (“FGM”) in Senegal.  

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Abdallahi v. Holder (6th Circuit, July 31, 2012)

SILER, Moore, Van Tatenhove (distct)

Summary:  The Sixth Circuit affirmed the agency’s determination that petitioner was ineligible to adjust status due to violations of 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(E)(iii) for having “committed, ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the commission of . . . any act of torture”. Petitioner served as a sergeant in the Mauritanian military and participated in the torture of black dissidents in Mauritania.