United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's petition for review is granted where the Immigration Judge invoked the wrong standard in analyzing his denial of withholding and Convention against Torture claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/13/2004
• Decided 09/13/2004
• Published 09/13/2004

Judges

• Before McKEOWN, BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and BREYER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carter C. White, King Hall Civil Rights Clinic, University of California School of Law, Davis, California;  Robert T. Grieg, Anil Kalhan, and Joseph Landau, Cleary Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, New York, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Linda S. Wendtland, and Shelley R. Goad, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.