United States Third Circuit

Petition for review of a reversal of a grant of withholding of deportation is granted where the Board of Immigration Appeals erred as a matter of law in essentially concluding that imprisonment based on religious beliefs is not persecution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/17/2006
• Published 01/17/2006

Judges

• RESTANI, Judge., Before ALITO and AMBRO, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tatiana S. Aristova, (Argued), Law Offices of John J. Gallagher, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Emily A. Radford, Assistant Director, Linda S. Wernery, Aviva L. Poczter, Blair T. O'Connor, William C. Peachey, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Eric D. Miller, (Argued), United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, for Respondent.