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· 9/23/2005

Jin Chen v. United States Department of Justice & Attorney General Gonzales

Citations

  • 426 F.3d 104
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 20393
  • 2005 WL 2319137

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 record did not support the agency’s adverse credibility finding in the absence of additional probing
  • holding that the record did not support adverse credibility determination in the absence of additional questioning
  • holding that we generally defer to IJ’s demeanor findings
  • affirming the denial of asylum on other grounds, but characterizing Falun Gong as a religion
  • giving “particular 14 deference to credibility determinations that are based on the adjudicator’s 15 observation of the applicant’s demeanor”
  • giving “particular 19 deference to credibility determinations that are based on the 20 adjudicator’s observation of the applicant’s demeanor”

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Judges: Pooler, Sotomayor, Korman

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