Harutyunyan v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining, in an immigration case, a harmless error is one that would not “have made a dispositive difference in the outcome of the proceeding”
• observing, in an immigration case, that a harmless error is one “that would [not] have made a dispositive difference in the outcome of the proceeding”
• stating, in an immigration case, that a harmless error is one that “would likely [not] have made a dispositive difference in the outcome of the proceeding”
• observing, in an immigration case, that a harmless error is one that “would [not] likely have made a dispositive difference in the outcome of the proceeding”
• affirming the BIA’s finding that, although there had been three incidents involving the same group of perpetrators, the necessary connection to government inaction was missing because the police had investigated each incident promptly and brought criminal charges against the perpetrators
• “[A] finding that violence is localized supports a determination that the violence does not constitute persecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).