Case Name: Jorge Armando FONSECA-PADILLA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-03-19
Citations: 599 F. App'x 283
Docket Number: No. 11-71032
Parties: Jorge Armando FONSECA-PADILLA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: FARRIS, WARDLAW, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 599
Pages: 283–284

Head Matter:
Jorge Armando FONSECA-PADILLA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 11-71032.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 10, 2015.
Filed March 19, 2015.
Christopher John Stender, Esquire, Federal Immigration Counselors, Inc., APC, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Jesse David Lorenz, Esquire, Trial, Oil, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: FARRIS, WARDLAW, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Jorge Armando Fonseca-Padilla, a native and citizen of Honduras, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying his application for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency's factual findings. Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1z184-85 (9th Cir.2006). We deny in part and grant in part the petition for review, and we remand.
We reject Fonseca-Padilla's contention that the BIA erred in not addressing his contention regarding Grava v. INS, 205 F.3d 1177 (9th Cir.2000). See INS v. Bagamasbad, 429 U.S. 24, 25, 97 S.Ct. 200, 50 L.Ed.2d 190 (1976) ("As a general rule courts and agencies are not required to make findings on issues the decision of which is unnecessary to the results they reach.").
The record does not compel the conclusion that the agency erred in its determination that Fonseca-Padilla did not suffer past harm that rose to the level of torture and failed to establish that it is more likely than not he will be tortured if he is removed to Honduras. See Kumar v. Gonzales, 444 F.3d 1043, 1055-56 (9th Cir. 2006) (affirming agency's determination that month-long detention and multiple beatings by police did not rise to the level of torture). Accordingly, Fonseca-Padil-la's CAT claim fails.
In denying Fonseca-Padilla's withholding of removal claim, the agency found Fonseca-Padilla failed to establish past persecution or a likelihood of future persecution on account of a protected ground. When the IJ and BIA issued their decisions in this case, they did not have the benefit of this court's decisions in Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder, 707 F.3d 1081 (9th Cir.2013) (en banc), Cordoba v. Holder, 726 F.3d 1106 (9th Cir.2013), and Pirir-Boc v. Holder, 750 F.3d 1077 (9th Cir.2014), or the BIA's decisions in Matter of M-E-V-G-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 227 (BIA 2014), and Matter of W-G-R-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 208 (BIA 2014). Thus, we remand Fonseca-Padilla's withholding of removal claim to determine the impact, if any, of these decisions. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).
Each party shall bear its own costs for this petition for review.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; GRANTED in part; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.