Case Name: Gerardo Rafael VELEZMORO, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-01-18
Citations: 120 F. App'x 185
Docket Number: No. 02-73244
Parties: Gerardo Rafael VELEZMORO, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PREGERSON, HAWKINS, THOMAS, SILVERMAN, GRABER, W. FLETCHER, BERZON, TALLMAN, RAWLINSON, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 120
Pages: 185–186

Head Matter:
Gerardo Rafael VELEZMORO, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 02-73244.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted En Banc Dec. 14, 2004.
Decided Jan. 18, 2005.
Vadim Yuzefpolsky, Esq., Law Offices of Vadim Yuzefpolsky, Glendale, CA, for Petitioner.
Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Counsel, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Donald E. Keener, Esq., Alison Marie Igoe, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Jonathan F. Cohn, Esq., DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division/Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PREGERSON, HAWKINS, THOMAS, SILVERMAN, GRABER, W. FLETCHER, BERZON, TALLMAN, RAWLINSON, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
The Board of Immigration Appeals did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion of Gerardo Rafael Velezmoro to reopen the merits of his asylum and withholding of deportation claims. See INS v. Doherty, 502 U.S. 314, 324, 112 S.Ct. 719, 116 L.Ed.2d 823 (1992) (reviewing for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen claims for asylum and withholding of deportation); Singh v. INS, 213 F.3d 1050, 1052 (9th Cir.2000) (same).
PETITION DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.