DIALLO v. I.N.S.

Docket No. 98-4131.

232 F.3d 279 (2000)

Moussa DIALLO, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Dion (Ogden N. Lewis, on the brief), Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, N.Y. for Petitioner.

Diogenes P. Kekatos, Assistant United States Attorney (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, James A. O'Brien III, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Gideon A. Schor, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), Southern District of New York, New York, N.Y. for Respondent

Steven J. Kolleeny (Jennifer A. Ferrante, Eleanor Acer, of counsel, on the brief) for Amicus Curiae The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, MESKILL, Circuit Judge, and HADEN, District Judge.


JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge:

Moussa Diallo petitions for review of the March 13, 1998 order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") dismissing his appeal from the denial by an immigration judge ("IJ") of his applications for asylum in the United States and withholding of deportation to Mauritania.1 Specifically, Diallo argues that the BIA erred by requiring him to corroborate his allegedly...

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