United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's application for asylum is reversed to determine whether her acts of 1) verbal resistance to an injection procedure, or 2) having two IUD's inserted against her will could be construed as resistance to China's birth control policies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2005
• Published 07/29/2005

Judges

• KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marco Pignone, III, Wilson & Pignone, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Yang.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stacy S. Paddack, David V. Bernal, Anthony Cardozo Payne, Terri Jane Scadron, U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL-Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Respondent.