SEATTLE — In a partial reversal, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the trial court erroneously declined to allow a lawful permanent resident to assert a Bivens claim after a government attorney forged an I-826 form , accepting voluntary departure, which would have interrupted his continuous residence in the U.S.
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