United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's order finding petitioner statutorily ineligible for asylum, the petition is granted where the BIA was required to determine whether, in an exercise of discretion, petitioner merited a grant of asylum under 8 U.S.C. section 1158(b).

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/10/2008
• Decided 01/04/2010
• Published 01/04/2010

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before: HARRY PREGERSON, D.W. NELSON and DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Haleh Mansouri, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stuart Nickum, Department of Justice Trial Attorney, Washington, DC, for the respondent.