Anatoly Michaelovich Kozulin Lioudmila Nikolaevna Larina v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• stating that when the Board conducts a clear error review, as was done here, “we look to the IJ’s oral decision as a guide to what lay behind the [Board’s] conclusion”
• upholding Board's finding that physical assault was not politically motivated, in part, because \no evidence suggests that the attackers in any way expressed their motivation\
• stating that in the face of a crew member’s accusation that a ship’s captain stole provisions, “[t]he cap- tain’s endeavors to maintain order within his questionable enterprise, however unpalatable, do not constitute persecution on account of political opinion”
• finding no evidence that attack on petitioner was motivated by his political opinion
• “[T]he mere presence of some political element does not require the conclusion that some maltreatment was on account of political opinion.”
• anonymous beating three weeµs after the supposed political act did not establish persecution on account of political opinion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).