United States First Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of an application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) is denied where: 1) petitioners failed to establish past persecution or clear probability of future persecution in Algeria; 2) substantial evidence supported a conclusion that the family's fear of future persecution was speculative; and 3) petitioners did not establish either that they were tortured in the past or that it was more likely than not that their family would be tortured if removed to Algeria.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/19/2008
• Published 08/19/2008

Judges

• LYNCH, Chief Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeanette Kain, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, LLP on brief for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Shahrzad Baghai, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Greg D. Mack, Senior Litigation Counsel, Department of Justice, and Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, on brief for respondent.