Hamzeh Hajiani-Niroumand v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing importance of corroborating evidence and giving deference to immigration judge’s credibility findings
• deferring to IJ’s credibility findings when IJ states “specific, cogent reason, or a legitimate, articulable basis” for such findings
• “A court that lacks jurisdiction at the outset of a case lacks 27 the authority to award attorneys’ fees.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).