United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's claim for asylum is reversed where the immigration judge failed to address whether she suffered female genital mutilation on account of her being a female member of the Tukulor Fulani tribe.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2005
• Published 09/09/2005

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge, McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge, and HARTZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael A. Walker of Walker Associates, LLP, Denver, CO, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Luis E. Perez, Trial Attorney (Linda S. Wendland, Assistant Director, with him on the brief), Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.