19-953 Puma Bravo v. Wolf UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT=S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION ASUMMARY ORDER@). A PARTY CITING TO A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 5th day of March, two thousand twenty. PRESENT: PIERRE N. LEVAL, RICHARD C. WESLEY, DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges. _____________________________________ IVAN LIZANDRO PUMA BRAVO, ANA CECILIA DURAN GUAMAN, SHERLYN IVONNE PUMA DURAN, by her mother and Guardian Ana Cecilia Duran Guaman, NICOLE CECILIA PUMA DURAN, by her mother and Guardian, Ana Cecilia Duran Guaman, MOISES GUERRERO RAMOS, and their 3 USC children, MAURILIA DURAN LUNA, and their 3 USC children, GRISELDA BALTAZAR TREJO, and their 4 USC children, FRANCISCO ESCAMILLA GONZALEZ, and their 4 USC children, CONSTANTINO SALAS BURGUA, and their 3 USC children, MARIA RAFAEL ALVAREZ, and their 3 USC children, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. 19-953 CHAD F. WOLF, Acting Secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, WILLIAM BIERMAN, Field Office Director, New York, NY U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, MARY BETH KELLER, Chief Immigration Judge Executive Office of Immigration Review, L. FRANCIS CISSNA, Director U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General of the United States, FRANK JAMES LOPREST, JR., Chief Immigration Judge, New York District, Executive Office of Immigration Review, New York NY, THOMAS CIOPPA, District Director New York District Office, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, US Department of Homeland Security, Defendants-Appellees.1 _____________________________________ FOR PLAINTIFFS/APPELLANTS: SAUL BERNARD SCHWARZ, Law Office of S. Bernard Schwarz, Esq., PLLC, New York, NY. FOR DEFENDANTS/APPELLEES: KIRTI VAIDYA REDDY, Assistant United States Attorney (Benjamin H. Torrance, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY. Appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Caproni, J.). UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the order of the district court is AFFIRMED. Appellants challenge the district court’s order dismissing as moot their challenge to a 2017 Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) memorandum which, they allege, foreclosed DHS attorneys’ ability to exercise prosecutorial discretion to recommend administrative closure in their removal proceedings. The district court concluded that the challenge was moot because an intervening decision of the Attorney General, Matter of Castro-Tum, 27 I. & N. Dec. 271 (A.G. 2018), stripped immigration judges ...
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