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· 7/12/2007

Heng v. Gonzales

Citations

  • 493 F.3d 46
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 16646
  • 2007 WL 2004522

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that petitioner first crediting political members and then human rights workers for her release was not necessarily inconsistent
  • noting that errors in translation “cannot be avoided, but immigration judges must be sensitive to the complexities of receiving testimony through a translator and take into account these difficulties when assessing credibility”
  • “Asylum applicants are not required to list every incident of persecution.”
  • noting essence of claim was arrest and detention without water

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Howard, Selya, Shadur

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