Y.C. v. HOLDER

Docket Nos. 11-2749-ag, 11-3217-ag.

741 F.3d 324 (2013)

Y.C., Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent. X.W., Petitioner, v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 18, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas V. Massucci , New York, NY, for Petitioner Y.C., No. 11-2749-ag.

Russell J.E. Verby , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation ( Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Kristin A. Moresi , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent, in No. 11-2749-ag.

Gang Zhou , New York, NY, for Petitioner X.W., in No. 11-3217-ag.

Russell J.E. Verby , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation ( Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Luis E. Perez , Senior Litigation Counsel, and Remi da Rocha-Afodu , Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent, No. 11-3217-ag.

Before: JACOBS and SACK, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.


SACK, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Y.C. seeks review of a 2011 order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming a 2009 decision of Immigration Judge ("IJ") Sandy K. Hom, which denied Y.C.'s application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture, Dec. 10, 1984, S. Treaty Doc. No. 100-20 (1988) ("CAT"). Petitioner X.W. seeks review of a 2011 order of the BIA affirming a 2009 decision of IJ Alan Vomacka, which pretermitted...

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