United States Seventh Circuit

Denials by the BIA of applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture are affirmed where: 1) the IJ's refusal to admit country reports from Sierra Leone was proper; 2) the BIA properly took administrative notice of facts contained in those country reports; 3) the IJ did not exhibit bias in his questioning of plaintiff; and 4) the BIA did not err in finding no credible evidence of past persecution or of a well-founded fear of future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/14/2008
• Decided 08/13/2008
• Published 08/13/2008

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara Schwartz (argued), University of Iowa College of Law, Clinical Law Programs, Iowa City, IA, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Arthur L. Rabin (argued), Anh Thu P. Mai-Windle, Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.