United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of decisions denying Palestinian's claims for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) is granted where the IJ failed to address petitioner's claims that, upon his return to the West Bank, he would suffer economic persecution because of his Palestinian identity, and that Palestinian militant groups would harm him because of the political beliefs they imputed to him.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2008
• Decided 06/16/2008
• Published 06/16/2008

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Saadia Siddique, Erin C. Cobb (argued), Kriezelman Burton & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kiley L. Kane (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.