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U.S. Attorney General Grants Seton Hall Law Petition to Stop the Deportation of Victims of Genital Mutilation

By immigrationprof

PR Newswire (Sept. 29, 2008) reports that Attorney General Michael Mukasey granted the petition of the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall Law School to reverse a recent decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals that denied asylum to victims of female genital mutilation (FGM). Joined by U.S. Representatives Steven Rothman (D-Bergen) and Chris Smith (R-Mercer), and a coalition of law professors, legal experts, and medical professionals, Seton Hall Law had called on the Attorney General to reverse what the Attorney General agreed was a decision based upon “flawed reasoning.”

Jenny-Brooke Condon, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Center for Social Justice, clinical Professor Lonegan_100129 Bryan Lonegan worked on the case.

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