United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of petitioner's deferral of removal claim under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) is denied where: 1) the circuit court was not barred from considering the petition; and 2) substantial evidence supported the denial as petitioner failed to establish that internal relocation within Mexico was impossible.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/18/2007
• Decided 03/11/2008
• Published 03/11/2008

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, A. WALLACE TASHIMA and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David B. Landry, San Diego, CA, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.;  Linda S. Wendtland, Assistant Director, Donald A. Couvillon, Office of Immigration Litigation, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent.