United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of married Chinese Falun Gong practitioners' asylum claims is granted where petitioners are eligible for asylum because the evidence, especially when viewed in light of the recent decisions in Zhou v. Gonzales, 437 F.3d 860 (9th Cir. 2006), and Zhang v. Ashcroft, 388 F.3d 713 (9th Cir. 2004), compels a conclusion that they have established a well-founded fear of future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/04/2008
• Decided 08/26/2008
• Published 08/26/2008

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  STEPHEN REINHARDT, ROGER J. MINER, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin Long, Esq., Monterey Park, CA, for the petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory G. Katsas, Esq., Susan K. Houser, Esq., Timothy Bo Stanton, Esq., Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.