United States Ninth Circuit

Petitioner's petition for review of the denial of his asylum application is granted, where the BIA improperly: 1) engaged in factfinding in denying the asylum claim; and 2) reversed the Immigration Judge's factual finding that Petitioner suffered persecution because of his political affiliation while in his native Haiti.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/15/2008
• Decided 05/12/2009
• Published 05/12/2009

Judges

• Before RICHARD A. PAEZ and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges, and HAROLD BAER, JR., District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Jobe, Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Richard M. Evans, and David E. Dauenheimer, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.