United States First Circuit

The court affirmed the Board of Immigration Appeals' denial of plaintiffs' request for asylum and withholding of deportation, and rejected plaintiffs' motion to reopen as the burden of explication had been satisfied by the BIA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/13/2004
• Published 07/13/2004

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Popov on brief for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Linda S. Wernery, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Brenda M. O'Malley, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.