United States First Circuit

Three episodes of solitary confinement comprising less than 72 hours each accompanied by physical abuse, periodic surveillance, threatening phone calls, occasional stops and searches, and visits to her place of work by authorities do not constitute persecution beyond "harassment and annoyance."

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/27/2000
• Published 10/27/2000

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Chief Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, STAHL and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan M. Pampanin, with whom Pampanin Law Offices was on brief, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa M. Arnold, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Terri Jane Scadron, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.