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Sixth Circuit· 11/9/2009

Al-Ghorbani v. Holder

Citations

  • 585 F.3d 980
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 24478
  • 2009 WL 3718297

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that \membership in the same family ... is widely recognized by the caselaw\ as a \particular social group\
  • finding that alleged constitutional violations did not prejudice the petitioners because the outcome would have been the same regardless of the error
  • approving proposed group of women who opposed the repressive and discriminatory Yemeni cultural and religious customs that prohibit mixed-class marriages and require paternal consent for marriage
  • recognizing a family as a “particular social group”
  • recognizing family as a particular social group
  • recognizing family as a particular social group

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Judges: Gilman, Griffin, Steeh

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