United States First Circuit

Denial of application for asylum based on fear of past and future persecution is affirmed because of the insignificance of that persecution when viewed in light of the changed country conditions in Guatemala following the 1996 peace accord.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/17/2003
• Published 07/17/2003

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harvey Kaplan, Ilana Greenstein, Maureen O'Sullivan, Jeremiah Friedman, and Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, LLP, were on brief for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Norah Ascoli Schwarz, Senior Litigation Counsel, and John C. Cunningham, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief for respondent.