United States First Circuit

8 U.S.C. section 1158(a), which prohibits direct review of a decision that an asylum application is time-barred, applies equally to review of a Board of Immigration Appeals' denial of reconsideration on the same issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/22/2005
• Published 12/22/2005

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Walter J. Gleason on brief for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Lynch, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.