Lek Berishaj v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• reversing IJ’s denial of asylum application based on changed circumstances for this reason
• discussing the problems presented by stale administrative records in asylum cases, and noting that “[i]t has become common that ... country reports in the administrative record are three or four years old by the time the petition for review comes before us”
• “[The Government] is obligated to introduce evidence that, on an individualized basis, rebuts a particular applicant’s specific grounds for his well-founded fear of future persecution”
• decrying the use of stale administrative records

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).