United States First Circuit

Petition for review of denial of Albanian citizens' asylum application is denied where substantial evidence supports the IJ's and BIA's determination that plaintiff's well-founded fear of future persecution was rebutted by a fundamental change in Albanian country conditions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2009
• Published 02/20/2009

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before HOWARD and STAHL, Circuit Judges, and BESOSA, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

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


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Jeffrey J. Bernstein, Senior Litigation Counsel and P. Michael Truman, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, on brief for respondent.