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· 7/15/2003

Cesar Julio Chavez Dominguez v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

Citations

  • 336 F.3d 678
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 14197
  • 2003 WL 21648940

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the IJ’s decision satisfies the requirement set out in SEC v. Chenery, 332 U.S. 194, 196-97 (1947), that an agency must set forth the grounds for its conclusions
  • rejecting an asylum claim where “guerillas were simply trying to fill their ranks and were not concerned with [the petitioner’s] political beliefs”
  • “A reasonable fact finder could decide from this record that the guerillas were simply trying to fill their ranks and were not concerned with [petitioner’s] political beliefs.”
  • streamlined procedure is not an abuse of discretion

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Judges: Bowman, Bye, Murphy

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