United States Third Circuit

Petition for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying petitioner's application for asylum is granted and remanded where substantial evidence does not support the BIA's conclusion that petitioner did not experience past persecution in the Ivory Coast, as petitioner directly witnessed abduction of her father by a group that she can definitively identify as having directly and unambiguously threatened her with harm as well.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/05/2009
• Decided 09/04/2009
• Published 09/04/2009

Judges

• Before SLOVITER and HARDIMAN, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK,District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Camille J. Mackler, Esq., [Argued], Law Office of Theresa Napolitano, New York, NY, for Petitioner, Fatouma Camara.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey S. Buckholtz, Esq., Emily Anne Radford, Esq., Patrick J. Glen, Esq., Craig Alan Newell, Jr., Esq., [Argued], United States Department of Justice, Civil, Division Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent, Eric H. Holder.