United States Second Circuit

Immigration Judge erred as a matter of law by relying on a number of improper grounds, and by holding plaintiff to inappropriately high evidentiary standards when she made an adverse credibility finding with regard to him.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/09/2002
• Decided 06/03/2003
• Published 06/03/2003

Judges

• Before OAKES, CABRANES and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anne Pilsbury, Brooklyn, NY (Lisa Reiner-Sotelo and Central American Legal Assistance, of counsel), for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael M. Krauss, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, NY (James B. Comey, United States Attorney, Kathy S. Marks, Gideon A. Schor and Megan Brackeny, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), for Respondent.