Campbell v. Boulton

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that petitioner failed to demonstrate that the mental toll of fleeing his homeland constituted an extraordinary circumstance
• acknowledging that ignorance of asylum requirements and lack of English skills did not excuse delay
• rejecting petitioner’s argument that “ignorance of the legal requirements for filing an asylum application is an ‘extraordinary circumstance . . .’”
• rejecting argument that immigrant’s youth, ignorance of the law, and language barrier constituted “extraordinary circumstances” excusing his failure to file his asylum application within the one year required period
• “As a general rule, ignorance of the law is no excuse” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “As a general rule, ignorance of the law is no excuse” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).