Alexei Chouchkov Natalia v. Kondratieva v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that persecu- tion of a Russian atomic energy agency employee for objecting within the agency to the agency’s sale of mate- rials to Iran was on account of a political opinion
• holding IJ’s belief that petitioner’s “stoic” demeanor indicated dishonesty was the result of cultural bias
• per- sonal conjecture about expected efficiency and competence of government officials is impermissible basis
• “[W]hat sounds peculiar in one country may be the norm in another.”
• “[W]hat sounds peculiar in one country may be the norm in another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).