BIA’s denial of Lebanese petitioner’s application for asylum is affirmed as an immigration judge’s determination that an asylum application is time barred does not preclude the judge from also finding that the same application is frivolous.     

Read Ghazali v. Holder, No. 08-4229

Appellate Information

Argued: October 7, 2009

Decided and Filed: October 29, 2009

Judges

Opinion by Circuit Judge Sutton

Counsel

For Appellant:  Ronald E. Kaplovitz, Kaplovitz & Associates, Sylvan Lake, Michigan

For Appellee:  Patrick James Glen, US Department of Justice, Washington, DC.

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