United States Ninth Circuit

Disabled children and their parents constitute a statutorily protected group, and a parent who provides care for a disabled child may seek asylum and withholding of removal on the basis of the persecution the child has suffered on account of his disability.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2005
• Published 04/21/2005

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge., Before REINHARDT, TASHIMA, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan D. Montag, Law Offices of Jonathan D. Montag, San Diego, California, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division;  Margaret J. Perry, Senior Litigation Counsel;  William C. Erb, Jr. and Frances M. McLaughlin, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for respondent.