United States Ninth Circuit

A 1990 regulation, making certain aliens categorically ineligible for a discretionary grant of asylum, cannot be applied retroactively to exclude petitioner for consideration for asylum based on his 1988 robbery conviction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2003
• Decided 07/08/2003
• Published 07/08/2003

Judges

• Before BROWNING, B. FLETCHER, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ethan B. Kanter and Earle B. Wilson, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the respondent-appellee.