United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's request for asylum is reversed where he was a member of the social group consisting of homosexual men in Mexico and was persecuted on account of this status.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/12/2005
• Published 08/12/2005

Judges

• D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge., Before D.W. NELSON, W. FLETCHER, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Angela M. Bean, Angela M. Bean & Associates, Oakland, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Margaret J. Perry, and Mary Jane Candaux, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.