Case Name: Emilio HERNANDEZ, aka Emilio Agustin Hernandez, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-11-25
Citations: 623 F. App'x 454
Docket Number: No. 13-71786
Parties: Emilio HERNANDEZ, aka Emilio Agustin Hernandez, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: TASHIMA, OWENS, and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 623
Pages: 454–455

Head Matter:
Emilio HERNANDEZ, aka Emilio Agustin Hernandez, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 13-71786.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 18, 2015.
Filed Nov. 25, 2015.
Richard Miyamoto, Phung, Miyamoto & Diaz, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
OIL, Manuel Palau, 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: TASHIMA, OWENS, and FRIEDLAND, 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
Emilio Hernandez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We grant the petition for review and remand.
At the time the BIA determined that Hernandez was ineligible for cancellation of removal because his conviction for possession of controlled substance paraphernalia under Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11364 terminated his accrual of continuous physical presence, see 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(d)(1), our precedent held that a conviction under that statute was categorically an offense "relating to a controlled substance" under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i)(II), see Estrada v. Holder, 560 F.3d 1039, 1042 (9th Cir.2009). However, in Mellouli v. Lynch, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 1980, 192 L.Ed.2d 60 (2015), the Supreme Court held that a conviction for possession of drug paraphernalia does not meet this standard unless there is "a direct link between an alien's crime of conviction and a particular federally controlled drug." See also Madrigal-Barcenas v. Lynch, 797 F.3d 643 (9th Cir. 2015). We therefore remand for the BIA to reconsider Hernandez' eligibility for cancellation of removal in light of Mellouli.
In light of this disposition, we do not reach Hernandez' remaining contentions.
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.