United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of a decision denying petitioner's application for withholding of removal is granted and the decision vacated for reconsideration where the immigration judge ignored a significant aspect of petitioner's testimony in support of her claims of past persecution and future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/16/2005
• Decided 01/05/2006
• Published 01/05/2006

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge., Before:  CARDAMONE and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, and KRAVITZ , District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruno Joseph Bembi, Hempstead, New York, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark E. Salter, Assistant United States Attorney, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (Michelle G. Tapken, Acting United States Attorney, District of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, of counsel), for Respondent.