NAKO v. HOLDER

No. 09-2351.

611 F.3d 45 (2010)

Sokrat Kristo NAKO, Kozet Filipi, Kristi Sokrat Nako, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 7, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew P. Johnson, was on brief, for petitioner.

Monica G. Antoun, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Shelley R. Goad, Assistant Director, and Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, were on brief for respondent.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, HOWARD and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

Petitioners Sokrat Nako, his wife Kozet Filipi, and his son Kristi, Albanian nationals, petition for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which upheld an Immigration Judge's (IJ) denial of their request for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The IJ denied their petition, inter alia, because even assuming Nako had established a well-founded fear of future persecution...

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