United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff's petition for review is granted where the Immigration Judge erred when he refused to allow plaintiff to present relevant expert testimony that bore on her credibility.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/13/2005
• Decided 05/06/2005
• Published 05/06/2005

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge., Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and GOODWIN and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mara Kimmel, Catholic Social Services, for the petitioner., David R. Fine, Carleton O. Strouss, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, Harrisburg, PA, and Gail L. Pendleton, Associate Director, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA, for the amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Grimes and Thomas K. Ragland, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for the respondent.