Balachova v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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

• entertaining credibility challenge not raised to BIA because “individual who raises a general argument may be able to raise specific subsidiary legal arguments or arguments by extension”
• “Where the conduct was active and has direct consequences for the victims, we have concluded that it was assistance in persecution”
• “In defining ‘assistance,’ we are guided by Fedorenko . . . , in which the Supreme Court addressed parallel language in the Displaced Persons Act of 1948.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).