United States Second Circuit

Grant of petitioner's claim for relief under the U.N. Convention Against Torture, but denial of application for asylum and withholding of removal, is vacated and remanded where the IJ and BIA erred in evaluating petitioner's claim that she suffered persecution on account of her membership in a particular social group or due to political opinion imputed to her.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2007
• Published 08/31/2007

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CALABRESI, WESLEY, Circuit Judges, SESSIONS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jon Bauer, Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT, for Petitioner., Deborah Anker, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (Nancy Kelly and John Willshire-Carrera on the brief), Boston, MA, for Amicus Curiae, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, Women Refugees Project.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nora R. Dannehy, Assistant U.S. Attorney, for Kevin J. O'Connor, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT, for Respondent.