United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the denial of petitioner's asylum application, the petition is denied where: 1) the BIA properly required corroboration of petitioner's testimony; and 2) though the three letters submitted by petitioner supported the conclusion that petitioner's claimed clan and subclan existed, the law was that in order to reverse the BIA finding, the court of appeals must find that the evidence not only supported such conclusion, but compelled it.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2009
• Decided 12/18/2009
• Published 12/18/2009

Judges

• KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, CARLOS T. BEA and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Victoria Diaz, Ruben Aranda, Linda Imonode, and Mark Sorokin, law students from the University of Arizona College of Law, supervised by Willie M. Jordan-Curtis, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Dean for Student Affairs, University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, AZ, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory G. Katsas, Stephen J. Flynn, Mark C. Walters, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.