United States Eleventh Circuit

Denial of asylum application and order of removal are vacated where petitioner, a Colombian lawyer and political activist, suffered past persecution on account of her political opinion. Case is remanded and petitioner is entitled to the benefit of the rebuttable presumption that she has demonstrated a well-founded fear of future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2008
• Published 01/11/2008

Judges

• STORY, District Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, DUBINA, Circuit Judge, and STORY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew B. Weber, Weber & Marks, P.L.L.C., Virginia Gardens, FL, Daphne Marya Query, Daphne M. Query, P.A., Miami, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter H. Matson, Anthony P. Nicastro, David V. Bernal, Mary Jane Candaux, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div. OIL, Washington, DC, for Respondent.