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ELIAS v. GONZALES

No. 06-3366.

490 F.3d 444 (2007)

Najah Gorges ELIAS, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: June 15, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger R. Rathi, Legalquest Network, Southfield, MI (on brief), for Petitioner.

Jamie M. Dowd, Michelle Gorden Latour, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC (on brief), for Respondent.

Before MERRITT and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges; LAWSON, District Judge.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

In this asylum case, petitioner Najah Gorges Elias, a native of Iraq and Chaldean Christian, seeks reversal of a Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") decision dismissing his appeal from an oral decision of an Immigration Judge ("IJ"). For the following reasons, we grant the petition for review, vacate the decision of the BIA, and remand for a new hearing before another IJ.

I.

At the time of his removal hearing on October...

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