Case Name: Flavio ESCOBEDO GOMEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-02-28
Citations: 367 F. App'x 738
Docket Number: No. 07-73368
Parties: Flavio ESCOBEDO GOMEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: FERNANDEZ, GOULD, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 367
Pages: 738–738

Head Matter:
Flavio ESCOBEDO GOMEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 07-73368.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 16, 2010.
Filed Feb. 28, 2009.
Christopher John Stender, Esquire, Stender & Lappin, San Diego, CA, for Petitioner.
OIL, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: FERNANDEZ, GOULD, and M. SMITH, 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
Flavio Escobedo Gomez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order denying his motion to reopen based on ineffective assistance of counsel. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d 889, 894 (9th Cir.2003), and we review de novo due process claims, Ram v. INS, 243 F.3d 510, 516 (9th Cir.2001). We deny the petition for review.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Escobedo Gomez's second motion to reopen as untimely and numerically barred because it was filed over a year after the BIA's August 2, 2005, final order, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and equitable tolling is unavailable to Escobedo Gomez where he did not establish prejudice from the alleged ineffective assistance of counsel, see Iturribarria, 321 F.3d at 897, 899; see also Lara-Torres v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 968, 973 (9th Cir.2004), amended by 404 F.3d 1105 (9th Cir.2005) (order) (counsel's "unfortunate immigration-law advice" was not ineffective assistance because it did not "pertain to the actual substance of the hearing" or "call the hearing's fairness into question").
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.