United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of denial of relief under the Convention Against Torture is granted and the case returned to the BIA for discussion of the likelihood that petitioner would be subject to female genital mutilation upon return to Sierra Leone.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/28/2006
• Decided 05/15/2006
• Published 05/15/2006

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael S. Ferrell, Jones Day, Chicago, IL, Victoria Dorfman (argued), Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lundgren Department of Homeland Security Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, Alison R. Drucker (argued), Jennifer A. Levings, Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.