United States Ninth Circuit

Inconsistencies in asylum applications may not support an adverse credibility finding where a claim in a second application was not available to petitioners when they filed the first petition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2001
• Published 09/11/2001

Judges

• Before:  LAY,TROTT and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Maureen Laflin,Monica Schurtman, Moscow, ID, Yi Quan Chen, Florence, AZ, Daniel R. Anderson, Moscow, ID, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Regional Counsel, Laguna Niguel, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, San Francisco, CA, John C. Cunningham, Karen Fletcher Torstenson, John J. Andre, John J. Andre, Robbin K. Blaya, Washington, DC, for Respondent.