The following excerpt is from Sanchez v. Sessions, No. 14-71768 (9th Cir. 2018):
Rajah, 544 F.3d at 447. For this rare subset of cases, simply remanding for a new hearing or for further proceedings will be insufficient because the agency's violations predate any hearing. Only full termination of the proceedings without prejudice can "effectively cure[] any procedural defect by putting the parties into the position they would have been had no procedural error taken place." Batanic v. INS, 12 F.3d 662, 667 (7th Cir. 1993).
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