Case Name: Hugo Antonio MENENDEZ-ORELLANA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-02-07
Citations: 554 F. App'x 626
Docket Number: No. 10-71040
Parties: Hugo Antonio MENENDEZ-ORELLANA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and TUNHEIM, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 554
Pages: 626–627

Head Matter:
Hugo Antonio MENENDEZ-ORELLANA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 10-71040.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 4, 2014.
Filed Feb. 7, 2014.
Joseph Arthur Mbacho, Sr., Esquire, Law Offices of Joseph Mbacho, El Centro, CA, for Petitioner.
Remi Adalemo, Trial, OIL, Blair O’Con-nor, Assistant Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: SCHROEDER and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and TUNHEIM, District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable John R. Tunheim, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Hugo Antonio Menendez-Orellana, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's denial of his motion to reopen. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1). We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, Socop-Gonzalez v. INS, 272 F.3d 1176, 1187 (9th Cir.2001) (en banc), and we deny the petition for review.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Menendez-Orellana's motion to reopen because the motion was filed nearly nine years after his final removal order, see 8 C.F.R. § 1008.23(b)(1), and Menen-dez-Orellana failed to establish that he was unable, "through no fault of his own and despite due diligence," to discover the grounds for his motion to reopen, Socop-Gonzalez, 272 F.3d at 1184, 1193. Menendez-Orellana is therefore not entitled to equitable tolling of the filing deadline.
PETITION DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.