United States Second Circuit

Petition for review challenging denial of an application for asylum and related relief is denied over a claim that, since petitioner arranged to have an abortion in order to avoid adverse consequences, possibly including the harsh treatment and substandard medical conditions attributed to an abortion or sterilization at the hands of Chinese government cadres, she was thus subjected to a forced abortion under China's family-planning policy and is consequently a "refugee."

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/07/2007
• Published 12/07/2007

Judges

• DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, KEARSE and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joshua Bardavid, Law Office of Joshua Bardavid, New York, N.Y. (Peter D. Lobel, New York, NY, on the brief), for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nicole N. Murley, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C. (Judy K. Hunt and David P. Rhodes, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Paul I. Perez, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa, FL, on the brief), for Respondent.