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· 1/7/2011

Kante v. Holder

Citations

  • 634 F.3d 321
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 2316
  • 2011 WL 63594

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that a particular social group cannot be circularly defined by the fact that its members have been subject to harm
  • applying the social-visibility criterion by asking whether society views that group as “specifically targeted for mistreatment”
  • group composed of “women subjected to rape as a method of government control” was improperly defined by the very fact that it suffers persecution

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Judges: Merritt, Rogers, Kethledge

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