United States First Circuit

The denial of an application for asylum by a Coptic Christian Egyptian national based on grounds of religious persecution, is reversed. One flawed IJ decision by the BIA does not rise to the level of evidence of systemic violation by the BIA of its regulations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2003
• Published 06/12/2003

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, YOUNG, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Saher Joseph Macarius, for petitioner., Harvey Kaplan, with whom Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, Beth Werlin, Mary A. Kenney, Nadine K. Wettstein, and Iris Gomez, were on the brief for American Immigration Law Foundation, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, and the New England Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• William C. Peachey, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, with whom Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Linda S. Wernery, Senior Litigation Counsel, were on brief for respondent.