United States Ninth Circuit

BIA must reconsider the request for protection under the Convention Against Torture. BIA applied an erroneous legal standard to this claim, brought by a Nigerian alien who suffered female genital mutilation and fears that her US citizen daughter would suffer a similar fate.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/12/2004
• Decided 04/01/2004
• Published 04/01/2004

Judges

• WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: WALLACE, NOONAN, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kim D. Pedersen and Rhoda Wilkinson Domingo, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Russell Verby and Leslie McKay, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.