Case Name: Abedin NIKOVIC, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2007-02-22
Citations: 217 F. App'x 80
Docket Number: No. 05-3560-ag
Parties: Abedin NIKOVIC, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Respondent.
Judges: PRESENT: Hon. DENNIS JACOBS, Hon. PIERRE N. LEVAL and Hon. SONIA SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 217
Pages: 80–81

Head Matter:
Abedin NIKOVIC, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Respondent.
No. 05-3560-ag.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Feb. 22, 2007.
Linda L. Foster, Queens Village, NY, for Petitioner.
Alice H. Martin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Jenny L. Smith, Assistant United States Attorney, Birmingham, AL, for Respondent.
PRESENT: Hon. DENNIS JACOBS, Hon. PIERRE N. LEVAL and Hon. SONIA SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
In denying the petitioner's motion to reconsider, the Board of Immigration Appeals failed to consider one of the petitioner's arguments: that future imprisonment for fleeing conscription in the Yugoslavian army at a time when the army was committing human rights abuses constitutes persecution. The petition for rehearing is granted and the cause is remanded to the BIA for it to consider in the first instance this argument and any other question it considers appropriate.