OSORIO v. I.N.S.

No. 728, Docket 93-4115.

18 F.3d 1017 (1994)

Vicente OSORIO, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Pilsbury, Brooklyn, NY (Central American Legal Assistance, of counsel), for Petitioner.

Claude M. Millman, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, F. James Loprest, Jr., Special Assistant United States Attorney, Diogenes P. Kekatos, Assistant United States Attorney; William Slattery, Immigration & Naturalization Service, Office of District Director; and Janet Reno, Attorney General, Washington, DC, of counsel), for Respondent.

Arthur C. Helton, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York, NY, and John M. DiMatteo, EGLI International, for Amicus Curiae.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, OAKES and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:

This petition for review raises several questions under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended, (the "Act"), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101 et seq. (1988 & Supp. IV 1992): (1) whether the applicant for asylum was persecuted solely on account of his involvement in an economic dispute with his government and therefore was ineligible for political asylum? (2) whether...

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