FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION MAR 17 2014
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
CAMILLE GEORGE KAIROUZ, Nos. 10-71131, 10-72641
Petitioner, Agency No. A070-077-181
v. MEMORANDUM*
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petitions for Review of Orders of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Argued and Submitted February 5, 2014
Pasadena, California
Before: SCHROEDER and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and TUNHEIM, District
Judge.**
Camille George Kairouz, a native and citizen of Lebanon, files these
consolidated petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”)
orders dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his first
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
**
The Honorable John R. Tunheim, United States District Judge for the
District of Minnesota, sitting by designation.
and second motions to reopen deportation proceedings conducted in absentia. We
have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the
denial of motions to reopen. Lopez-Vasquez v. Holder, 706 F.3d 1072, 1078 (9th
Cir. 2013). We deny the petitions for review.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Kairouz’s motions to reopen
where the record shows that proper notice of Kairouz’s September 9, 1999,
deportation hearing was sent to his attorney of record at the time. See 8 U.S.C.
§ 1252b(a)(2); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.26(b); Garcia v. INS, 222 F.3d 1208, 1209 (9th Cir.
2000) (per curiam) (holding that notice to the attorney of record constitutes notice
to the petitioner). Although Kairouz now argues that his attorney no longer
represented him at the time the notice was mailed, that assertion is not supported
by the record.
PETITIONS FOR REVIEW DENIED.
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