United States Eighth Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of petitioner's application for asylum and related relief is granted and the case remanded for a changed country conditions analysis where the record compelled a finding of past persecution based upon a protected status, and thus petitioner's well-founded fear of future persecution was presumed to exist.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2006
• Published 05/15/2006

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN  and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Jason R. Asmus of Minneapolis, MN. Michael D. Gordon of Minneapolis appeared on the brief.


• For Appellees:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee was Theodore C. Hirt of the Justice Department, Washington, D.C.