Hootan Davoudi v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

85 F.3d 634 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Hootan DAVOUDI, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 95-70172. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted May 10, 1996. * Decided May 16, 1996. Before: HALL, O'SCANNLAIN and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Hootan Davoudi petitions for review of a decision of the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") denying his application for asylum and withholding of deportation. Because we find substantial evidence in the record to support the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), we deny the petition. 3 The only member of Davoudi's family to have arguably been persecuted is his mother, yet her trouble with the authorities in the first year or so of the new regime did not repeat itself, and she remained in Iran with the family for five years thereafter. The Immigration Judge ("IJ") found it unlikely that she would face persecution in the…