United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiffs, seeking asylum, successfully established that 8 U.S.C. section 1231 does not authorize the designation of Jordan as a country of removal, and, further, that they are members of a minority that is subject to economic persecution, entitling them to withholding of removal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/06/2004
• Decided 08/02/2004
• Published 08/02/2004

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge:, Before: HUG, TASHIMA, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew A. Carvalho, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Seattle, WA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alicia D. Johnson and Leslie McKay, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.