United States Ninth Circuit

A petition for review of a decision dismissing petitioner's appeal and ordering him removed to Afghanistan is granted in part where the Board of Immigration Appeals failed to apply the proper legal standard in determining petitioner's eligibility for withholding of removal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2006
• Decided 04/04/2006
• Published 04/04/2006

Judges

• ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HUG, ALARCÓN, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin H. Knutson, Sacramento, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Fiorino and Margaret K. Taylor, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.