United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of an order sustaining the denial of plaintiff's requests for asylum, restriction on removal, and relief under the U.N. Convention Against Torture is denied where: 1) the IJ's adverse credibility determination against plaintiff was reasonable and consistent with the record evidence; 2) plaintiff failed to supply corroboration of the events he testified about and thus presented insufficient evidence to support his claim that he would be persecuted if returned to Sri Lanka; 3) plaintiff failed to offer sufficient evidence that he was entitled to a hearing on the possibility that he would face persecution as a failed asylum seeker; and 4) plaintiff did not establish a pattern or practice of persecution in Sri Lanka based on a protected trait that he shares.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/02/2008
• Decided 04/23/2009
• Published 04/23/2009

Judges

• ROVNER, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and ROVNER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, Attorney (argued), Law Office of Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Walter M. Evans, Attorney (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.