United States Ninth Circuit

The Board of Immigration Appeals's interpretation of "acquiescence" under the United Nations Convention Against Torture, to require that government officials are willfully accepting of torture to their citizens by a third party, is contrary to clearly expressed congressional intent to require only "awareness."

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2003
• Decided 06/18/2003
• Published 06/18/2003

Judges

• Before BROWNING, PREGERSON, and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jisheng Li, Honolulu, HI, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Norah Ascoli Schwarz, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.