Ballesteros v. Ashcroft, 452 F.3d 1153 (10th Cir. Jun. 14, 2006) (immigration judges must apply the law of the circuit in which they sit; noncitizens in removal proceedings have no legal right to have removal proceedings commenced in a particular place, or to have the laws of a particular federal circuit applied to them), reversed, Ballesteros v. Gonzales, ___ F.3d ___, 2007 WL 926831 (10th Cir. March 29, 2007), to the extent the prior decision is inconsistent Lopez v. Gonzalez, 127 S.Ct. 625 (2006). See also Latu v. Ashcroft, 375 F.3d 1012 (10th Cir. 2004); Menowitz v. Brown, 991 F.2d 36, 40 (2d Cir. 1993).
jurisdiction:
Tenth Circuit