United States Third Circuit

A petition for review of a denial of petitioner's applications for asylum, withholding of removal and additional relief, is granted where: 1) the IJ failed to consider certain evidence which had been submitted in finding that petitioner did not establish a well-founded fear of persecution based on his religion; and 2) the IJ committed legal error in holding that failure to meet the evidentiary burden for asylum precluded relief under the U.N. Convention Against Torture.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/13/2006
• Decided 11/03/2006
• Published 11/03/2006

Judges

• Before: SLOVITER, McKEE and RENDELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mikael Abye, Esq. (Argued), Shearman & Sterling LLP, San Francisco, CA, Attorneys for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher J. Christie, Esq., Richard M. Evans, Esq., United States Attorney, District of New Jersey, Dorothy J. Donnelly, Esq. (Argued), Assistant United States Attorney, Trenton, NJ, Attorneys for Respondent.