Select Concluded Cases & Writings
Algunos Casos Concluidos y Cosas Escritos
IMMIGRATION CASES (CASOS MIGRATORIOS)
PERU----HUMAN TRAFFICKING VISA & INVESTIGATION CRIMINAL / VISA PARA VICTIMA DE TRAFICO DE SERES HUMANOS Y REPRESENTACION DURANTE INVESTIGACION CRIMINAL
http://www.lccr.com/PenaCanal%20press%20release%20041410.pdf
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_11051486
The published Ninth Circuit decision (La decision del Corte del Novena Circuito):
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2011/07/22/10-10191.pdf
CAMEROON----NINTH CIRCUIT----POLITICAL ASYLUM / ASILO POLITICO
http://archive.ca9.uscourts.gov/coa/memdispo.nsf/pdfview/111704/$File/03-70626.PDF
HAITI---- NINTH CIRCUIT----POLITICAL ASYLUM / ASILO POLITICO
Represented immigrant in political asylum trial in case successfully reversed by Carmen Chavez/Josh Chatten-Brown of Casa Cornelia Law Center & Teodora Purcell of Fragomen in a published decision, Joseph v. Holder (05-74390): http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/04/14/05-74390.pdf
MONGOLIA----ASYLUM & GREENCARD/ASILO & TARJETA VERDE
Obtained release, asylum & green card for client who had survived being raped, drugged, forcibly subjected to breast augmentation, and forced to labor in an East Asian brothel.
KENYA----POLITICAL ASYLUM / ASILO POLITICO (GENDER & GENITAL CUTTING/GENERO Y CORTE DE LOS GENITALES DE MUJERES)
HAITI----POLITICAL ASYLUM / ASILO POLITICO----MULTIPLE
EL SALVADOR----CANCELLATION OF REMOVAL / CANCELACIÓN DE EXPULSIÓN
MEXICO----WITHHOLDING / CANCELACION (HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITY / IDENTIDAD HOMOSEXUAL)
CHINA----POLITICAL ASYLUM / ASILO POLITICO----MULTIPLE
HONDURAS----DOMESTIC VIOLENCE / VIOLENCIA DOMESTICA (SERVILE MARRIAGE / MATRIMONIO SERVIL----GREEN CARD/TARJETA VERDE
HONDURAS----CHILD OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM / HIJO DE VICTIMA DE VIOLENCIA DOMESTICA----GREENCARD/TARJETA VERDE
MEXICO----CRIME VICTIM VISA / VISA PARA VICTIMA DE CRIMEN (DOMESTIC VIOLENCE / VIOLENCIA DOMESTICA)
MEXICO----CRIME VICTIM VISA / VISA PARA VICTIMA DE CRIMEN (PARAPLEGIC VICTIM OF ROBBERY / UNA VÍCTIMA DE ROBO PARAPLÉJICOS)
SOMALIA----WITHHOLDING / CANCELACION (TRIBE/TRIBU)
CUBA----GREENCARD/TARJETA VERDE
INDIA----NATURALIZATION / CIUDADANIA (DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ADULT WHO IS POLIO SURVIVOR / UN ADULTO QUIEN SOBREVIVIO LA POLIO CON DESHABILIDADES DE DESAROLLO
MULTIPLE NATIONS----CHILDREN IN REMOVAL (NIÑOS EN PELIGRO DE DEPORTACION)
CIVIL CASES (CASOS CIVILES)
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OTHER WRITINGS (OTROS ESCRITOS)
HAWAII APPELLATE DECISION (APPELACION): Drafted published decision establishing admissibility of threats of violence made against a former cohabiting partner in family court.
http://www.state.hi.us/jud/ica23994.htm
NON-FICTION ESSAY ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN MANUSHI, A RENOWNED INDIAN FEMINIST MAGAZINE / ENSAYO EN REVISTA FEMINISTA DE LA INDIA (2003)
http://www.manushi-india.org/pdfs_issues/PDF%20files%2097/readers_forum.pdf