United States Ninth Circuit

A petition for review of a denial of petitioner's application for withholding of removal under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and the Convention Against Torture (CAT) is granted where the BIA applied impermissibly strict legal standards to petitioner's claims for withholding of removal under IIRIRA and CAT.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2005
• Decided 08/21/2006
• Published 08/21/2006

Judges

• BROWNING, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: BROWNING, D.W. NELSON, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth B. Wydra, Washington, DC, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carol Federighi, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.