Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
In a petition for review of the BIA's order denying petitioner's asylum application, the petition is denied where petitioner did not file an asylum application in English within the one year deadline and no "extraordinary circumstances" prevented him from filing on time.
Read Toj-Culpatan v. Holder, No. 05-72179
Appellate Information
Argued and Submitted March 1, 2009
Filed December 1, 2009
Judges
Per Curiam
Counsel
For Petitioner:
Lisa M. Calero and Robert L. Lewis, Law Offices of Robert L. Lewis, Oakland, CA
For Respondent:
Antoinette Barksdale, Ronald E. LeFevre and Mark Lenard Gross, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC