United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' order removing Petitioner from the U.S. is denied where Petitioner's prior grant of asylum was insufficient to establish a presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution based on past persecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/10/2008
• Decided 05/27/2009
• Published 05/27/2009

Judges

• CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ROBERT R. BEEZER, RONALD M. GOULD and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip James Smith, Nelson Smith, LLP, Portland, OR, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory G. Katsas, Richard M. Evans, and Paul Fiorino, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.