United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of an IJ's denial of applications for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture is denied over petitioner's arguments that: 1) the BIA failed to give adequate reasons for its decision to dismiss her appeal for procedural defects; and 2) under the circumstances presented here, the BIA's dismissal of the appeal violated due process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/01/2007
• Published 03/01/2007

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruce A. Coane (submitted), Coane & Choudhary, Houston, TX, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security Office of the Chief Counsel, Chicago, IL, Manuel A. Palau, Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.