United States Ninth Circuit

Petitioners' petition for review of the denial of their application for withholding of removal is granted, where the government failed to make the author of an adverse forensic evaluation of Petitioners' documents available for cross-examination or to disclose the existence of the report to Petitioners until the day of their hearing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/06/2009
• Decided 06/03/2009
• Published 06/03/2009

Judges

• HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, MARSHA S. BERZON and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dr. Willie Jordan Curtis, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, and Brooke Mickelson, Maria Mendoza and Victoria Diaz, Law Students, The University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, Tucson, AZ, for the petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brooke M. Maurer and Stephen J. Flynn, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.