United States Ninth Circuit

An asylum petitioner who seeks to qualify for the humanitarian exception to the requirement of proving future prosecution need not show ongoing disability from severe past persecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/09/1999
• Decided 07/03/2001
• Published 07/03/2001

Judges

• Before:  B. FLETCHER, O'SCANNLAIN, and MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Roman Gardner and Miguel D. Gadda, San Francisco, California, for the petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• David W. Ogden, Acting Attorney General, Civil Division;  Kristen A. Giuffreda, Senior Litigation Counsel;  and John P. Moran, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, for the respondent.