FISHER v. I.N.S.

No. 91-70676.

79 F.3d 955 (1996)

Saideh FISHER, aka Saideh Hassib-Tehrani; Kian Hosseini Lavasani, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 5, 1994.

Amended July 31, 1995.

Order Granting Rehearing Filed September 29, 1995.

Argued and Submitted November 30, 1995.

Decided April 2, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Rafael Pineda, Charles E. Nichol, San Francisco, California; Carolyn Patty Blum, Central American Refugee Defense Fund, Berkeley, California, for petitioners.

Karen Fletcher Torstenson, Thomas W. Hussey, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before: WALLACE, FLETCHER, CANBY, HALL, BRUNETTI, JOHN T. NOONAN, Jr., THOMPSON, O'SCANNLAIN, TROTT, FERNANDEZ, and RYMER, Circuit Judges.


Order Granting Rehearing En Banc Filed September 29, 1995.

Opinion by Judge WALLACE; Concurrence by Judge CANBY; Dissent by Judge NOONAN.

WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

Saideh Fisher and her son Kian Hosseini Lavasani are natives and citizens of Iran. On her behalf, as well as for her son, Fisher petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (Board) decision denying her application for asylum and withholding of deportation. The Board also denied...

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