United States Seventh Circuit

Plaintiffs' petition for review is granted where the immigration judge improperly concluded that it would not be persecution for the Ethiopian government to divest plaintiffs of their citizenship based on their ethnicity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/02/2005
• Decided 08/29/2005
• Published 08/29/2005

Judges

• ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, MANION, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary L. Sfasciotti (argued), Chicago, IL, for Petitioner, Temesgen W. Haile., Melville W. Washburn (argued), Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner, Everusalem M. Tekelu.


• For Appellees:
  
• George P. Katsivalis, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, John M. McAdams, Jonathan F. Potter (argued), Stacy S. Paddack (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., Chuck Rosenberg, Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General, Washington, DC, for Respondent.