United States Third Circuit

Plaintiff's petition for review is granted where the Board of Immigration Appeals' findings are wholly unsupported by the record and essentially ignore the actual basis of plaintiff's asylum claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2004
• Decided 07/22/2005
• Published 07/22/2005

Judges

• Before AMBRO, and VAN ANTWERPEN, Circuit Judges and SHADUR, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philippe Weisz, (Argued), American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program, Newark, NJ, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Scott R. McIntosh, H. Thomas Byron, III, (Argued), United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff PHB 9134, Washington, D.C., Douglas E. Ginsburg, John D. Williams, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.