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· 8/29/2008

Badasa v. Mukasey

Citations

  • 540 F.3d 909
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 18603
  • 2008 WL 3981817

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that an Immigration Judge erred in relying on an internet document without analyzing whether it was “a sufficiently reliable source” of information
  • noting Wikipedia definition of an Ethio- pian travel document was unreliable evidence of party’s immigration sta- tus
  • noting Wikipedia definition of an Ethio- pian travel document was unreliable evidence of party’s immigration sta- tus
  • noting Wikipedia definition of an Ethio- pian travel document was unreliable evidence of party’s immigration sta- tus
  • finding Wikipedia was not a sufficiently reliable source on which to rest a determination of asylum
  • noting Wikipedia definition of an Ethio- pian travel document was unreliable evidence of party’s immigration sta- tus

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bye, Smith, Colloton

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