286 F. App'x 347

Francisco CURIEL-LOPEZ, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.

No. 07-70879.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted March 10, 2008 *.

Filed March 18, 2008.

Francisco Curiel-Lopez, Corona, CA, pro se.

CAC-District, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, Carol Federighi, Jonathan Robbins, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.

Before: T.G. NELSON, TASHIMA and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

MEMORANDUM **

This is a petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying as untimely petitioner’s motion to reopen removal proceedings.

The regulations provide that a motion to reopen must be filed within 90 days of the final administrative order. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2). The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying petitioner’s motion to reopen because the motion to reopen was filed more than nine months after the final administrative order and did *348not meet a regulatory exception to the 90-day filing requirement. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3); Rodriguez-Lariz v. INS, 282 F.3d 1218, 1222 (9th Cir.2002) (BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen is reviewed for abuse of discretion). Accordingly, respondent’s unopposed motion for summary disposition in part is granted.

Further, we lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s decision declining to exercise its sua sponte authority to reopen proceedings. See Ekimian v. INS, 303 F.3d 1153, 1159 (9th Cir.2002). Accordingly, respondent’s unopposed motion to dismiss in part is granted.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.

Curiel-Lopez v. Mukasey
286 F. App'x 347

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Curiel-Lopez v. Mukasey
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