Singh v. Napolitano

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RAJINDER PAL SINGH, 

Petitioner-Appellant, v. No. 07-16988 JANET NAPOLITANO, Secretary D.C. No. CV-07-03943-MMC Department of Homeland Security;

NANCY ALCANTAR, Field Office  Northern District of Director, Immigration and California, Customs Enforcement; ERIC H. San Francisco HOLDER Jr., Attorney General of ORDER the United States,

Respondents-Appellees. 

Filed August 11, 2009

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Jerome Farris and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges.

ORDER

The case is remanded to the Board of Immigration Appeals for the limited purpose of ruling upon whether the Board had jurisdiction to hear Singh’s ineffective assistance of counsel claims and what effect, if any, the Attorney General’s recent opinion in In re Compean, 25 I&N Dec. 1, 3 (A.G. 2009), has on this case. The Board shall advise this court of any action or decision.

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