United States Ninth Circuit

A pro se litigant's reference to "recent Country Reports," in a motion to reopen under the Convention Against Torture, is sufficient to require the Board of Immigration Appeals to consider the most recent country profile, though such profile was not in the record compiled before the Immigration Judge.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/05/2002
• Decided 09/23/2002
• Published 09/23/2002

Judges

• Before FERNANDEZ, WARDLAW and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul H. Schwartz,Cooley Godward LLP, Broomfield, CO, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael T. Dougherty and Margaret K. Taylor, Oil, Washington, DC, for the respondent.