United States Ninth Circuit

Petitioner was not entitled to asylum or withholding of removal for resisting China's coercive family planning practices, and any fear of persecution was not objectively reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2002
• Published 12/05/2002

Judges

• Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, PREGERSON, REINHARDT, T.G. NELSON, KLEINFELD, HAWKINS, THOMAS, GRABER, WARDLAW, PAEZ, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Jobe (argued), Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, Karen Musalo and Stephen Knight, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, San Francisco, CA, Michael P. Karr, Michael P. Karr & Associates, Sacramento, CA, for the petitioners., Dr. John Aird, Silver Spring, MD, amicus curiae in support of petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Greg D. Mack (argued), Alison R. Drucker and Russell J.E. Verby, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.