• 9th Cir.
  • No. 12-72326
  • Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, Morgan Christen, Circuit Judge, and J. Michael Seabright,* District Judge
  • For Plaintiff: Frank P. Sprouls (argued) and John E. Ricci, Law Office of Ricci & Sprouls, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner.
  • For Defendant: Rebecca Hoffberg Phillips (argued) and Imran Raza Zaidi, Trial Attorneys, and Ada Elsie Bosque, Senior Litigation Counsel, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Board of Immigration Appeal’s new “obstruction of justice” interpretation raised concerns as to whether statute is unconstitutionally vague (Christen, J.)