United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiffs' petition for asylum is granted where their testimony of harassment, beatings, and death threats compels the conclusion that they suffered past persecution on account of their mixed-race, mixed-religion marriage in Fiji.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/15/2004
• Decided 08/04/2004
• Published 08/04/2004

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before B. FLETCHER, LEAVY, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Parmjeet Kaur Randhawa, Law Office of Parmjeet Kaur Randhawa, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division;  David M. McConnell, Deputy Director;  and Jonathan F. Cohn, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.