United States Third Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of petitioner's claim for relief from removal based upon alleged violations of the Convention Against Torture (CAT) is denied where the generalized allegations of prison conditions petitioner advanced did not rise to the level of "torture" for purposes of the CAT.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/02/2006
• Decided 05/19/2006
• Published 05/19/2006

Judges

• McKEE, Circuit Judge., Before McKEE, SMITH and VAN ANTWERPEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Regis Fernandez, (Argued), Newark, NJ, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher J. Christie, United States Attorney, District of New Jersey, Neil R. Gallagher, Assistant United States Attorney, Rudolph A. Filko, (Argued), Assistant United States Attorney, Newark, NJ, for Appellees.