United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of application for asylum and withholding of removal is granted, and the denial vacated and remanded, where the IJ's analysis of the issue of past persecution was insufficient for the court to determine whether he applied the correct legal standard.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/24/2006
• Published 10/25/2006

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, Jr., Circuit Judge., Before CALABRESI, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, LYNCH, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Saul C. Brown, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles E. Ex, Assistant United States Attorney (Edmond E. Chang, James Anderson, Craig A. Oswald, on the brief) for Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois, for Respondent.