Bent

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CLAUDE STEPHEN BENT, No. 22-1910

Petitioner, Agency No. 037-050-176 v.

ORDER AND

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney AMENDED General, OPINION

Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted November 17, 2023 San Francisco, California

Filed August 15, 2024 Amended September 6, 2024

Before: Danielle J. Forrest and Salvador Mendoza, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Solomon Oliver, Jr., * District Judge.

* The Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr., Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, sitting by designation. Order; Opinion by Judge Mendoza; Dissent by Judge Forrest

SUMMARY **

Immigration

The panel filed (1) an order granting a petition for panel rehearing and amending the majority opinion filed August 15, 2024; and (2) an amended opinion granting in part petitioner Claude Stephen Bent’s petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ denial of his motion to reopen removal…