United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of an application for asylum and withholding of deportation was improper where appellant demonstrated sufficient evidence of his fear of being imprisoned, tortured, or killed by (or with the acquiescence of) the People's Republic of China, based on his membership in his family.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2000
• Decided 05/13/2002
• Published 05/13/2002

Judges

• NOONAN, Circuit Judge., Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, NOONAN and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy A. Nelson, Darrel S. Jackson, Brown & Bain, P.A., Phoenix, AZ;  H. Elizabeth Dallam, Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, Inc., Tucson, AZ, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew R. Hall, Office of Immigration Litigation, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.