United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of petitioner's application for withholding of removal under the Convention Against Torture, the petition is denied where the government met its burden of showing that it had "reasonable grounds" to regard petitioner as "a danger to national security," and thus the BIA's decision was supported by substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/09/2008
• Decided 08/10/2009
• Published 08/10/2009

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  STEPHEN REINHARDT, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frederic C. Tausend and Shaakirrah R. Sanders, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP, Seattle, WA, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Lindemann, Assistant Director, William C. Peachey, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for respondent-appellee.