Case Name: Maria Esther SANDOVAL CALDERON, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-06-28
Citations: 440 F. App'x 593
Docket Number: No. 09-71158
Parties: Maria Esther SANDOVAL CALDERON, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: CANBY, O’SCANNLAIN, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 440
Pages: 593–594

Head Matter:
Maria Esther SANDOVAL CALDERON, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-71158.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 15, 2011.
Filed June 28, 2011.
Laura L. Lichter, Lichter & Associates, P.C., Denver, CO, for Petitioner.
Maria Esther Sandoval Calderon, Denver, CO, pro se.
Rosanne Perry, Trial, Robbin Kinraonth Blaya, Esquire, Trial, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Le-fevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: CANBY, O’SCANNLAIN, and FISHER, 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
Maria Esther Sandoval Calderon, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying her motion to reopen her deportation proceedings conducted in absentia. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen. Arrieta v. INS, 117 F.3d 429, 430 (9th Cir.1997). We grant the petition for review and remand.
The BIA abused its discretion in determining that Sandoval Calderon's receipt of the hearing notice for her December 7, 1993 hearing constituted proper service of the hearing notice for the April 3, 1995 hearing at which she was ordered deported in absentia. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252b(c)(l) (1995). We remand for the agency to determine whether she was properly served with the hearing notice for the April 3, 1995 hearing in light of the unaddressed contentions in her motion to reopen.
In light of our disposition, we need not reach Sandoval Calderon's remaining contentions.
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.