LAZAR v. GONZALES

No. 06-3380.

500 F.3d 469 (2007)

Yousif Z. LAZAR, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 14, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Maris J. Liss, George P. Mann & Associates, Farmington Hills, Michigan, for Petitioner. John T. Battaglia, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Maris J. Liss, George P. Mann, George P. Mann & Associates, Farmington Hills, Michigan, for Petitioner. Aviva L. Poczter, Patricia A. Smith, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before: BATCHELDER and COLE, Circuit Judges; PHILLIPS, District Judge.


R. GUY COLE, JR., Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Yousif Lazar seeks review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") decision declaring Lazar's asylum application frivolous. At a hearing in November 2003, Lazar admitted that he made material misrepresentations in his application, including that he was detained and beaten in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. As a result, the IJ declared his application frivolous. Because a...

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