United States Ninth Circuit

The denial of Petitioner's asylum petition is reversed, where the BIA: 1) relied on classified evidence without giving Petitioner sufficient notice of the parameters of that evidence; and 2) held that Petitioner was less than candid without providing a reasoned adverse credibility finding.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/21/2008
• Decided 04/01/2009
• Published 04/01/2009

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  JOHN T. NOONAN, M. MARGARET McKEOWN and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Jobe (argued), Arwen A. Swink and Lina Baroudi, Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher C. Fuller, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.