United States First Circuit

Petition for review of a BIA order rejecting Colombian petitioner's request for asylum is denied over claims that the BIA erred in determining that petitioner failed to establish either past persecution or objectively reasonable fear of persecution on account of a statutorily protected grounds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/21/2008
• Published 05/21/2008

Judges

• SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel F. Cashman, Cashman & Lovely, P.C., and Susanna L. Shafer, on brief, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Wendy Benner-León, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief, for respondent.