United States Second Circuit

Denial of application for relief under the Convention Against Torture is upheld over principal contention that the IJ lacked substantial evidence to support her finding that petitioner failed to establish that he would more likely than not be tortured upon return to his homeland.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/27/2006
• Published 07/27/2006

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge., Before WALKER, Chief Judge, and KEARSE and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stuart Altman, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Rawls, Assistant United States Attorney, Beaumont, TX (Matthew D. Orwig, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont, TX, on the brief), for Respondents.