United States Second Circuit

Denial of an application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture, is vacated where the IJ applied the wrong legal standard to petitioner's claim of past persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/09/2006
• Published 11/09/2006

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before CALABRESI, POOLER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Vlad Kuzmin, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ralph Andrew Price, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, for Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, for Respondent.