United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and ordering petitioners' removal to Albania, is dismissed as to those claims for which petitioners failed to exhaust administrative remedies, but is granted as to the asylum claim, which was exhausted, for lack of clarity in the IJ's decision concerning the reasons why he denied relief and a significant error in his statement of the standard petitioners must satisfy to be entitled to asylum.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/05/2006
• Published 09/06/2006

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge., Before POOLER and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Maureen O'Sullivan, Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, Boston, MA, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lucinda S. Woolery, Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Missouri (Todd P. Graves, United States Attorney, on the brief), Kansas City, MO, for Respondent.