Legal Opinion
Cinapian v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 3, 2009No. 05-72445PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:
Concluding Petitioners’ right to a fair hearing was violated and their asylum applications prejudiced by the government’s failure to make the author of an adverse forensic evaluation of Petitioners’ documents available for cross-examination or to disclose the existence of the report to Petitioners until the day of their hearing and by the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) insistence on proceeding in the face of those failures, we grant the petition for review.
Factual and Procedural Background
Petitioners are Aghavni Cinapian (“Aghavni”), her husband Norek Cinapian (“Norek”),…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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