United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of an order denying an application for asylum, withholding of removal, and additional relief is granted where the immigration judge's credibility finding rested on serious errors, and he misstated the legal standard governing the level of government involvement needed to support a claim of persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/14/2006
• Published 03/14/2006

Judges

• WESLEY, Circuit Judge., Before:  CALABRESI, STRAUB, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael P. DiRaimondo (Marialaina L. Masi& MaryElizabeth Delli-Pizzi, of counsel), DiRaimondo & Masi, LLP, Melville, New York, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jim Letten, United States Attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana (Eneid A. Francis and Diane Hollenshead Copes, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), New Orleans, Louisiana, for Respondent (on submission).