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· 4/4/2012

Lyashchynska v. U.S. Attorney General

Citations

  • 676 F.3d 962
  • 2012 WL 1107991
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 6716

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that an “adverse credibility determination coupled with a lack of corroborating evidence for a claim of persecution means that the applicant’s claim fails”
  • upholding the Immigration Judge’s reliance on a Department of State investigation where the asylum applicant “did not overcome the presumption of regularity afforded to government investigations”
  • “Where there are two permissible views of the evidence, the factfinder’s choice between them cannot be clearly erroneous.” (quotation marks omitted)
  • “An adverse credibility determination coupled with a lack of corroborating evidence for a claim of persecution means that the applicant’s claim fails.”
  • “An adverse credibility determination coupled with a lack of corroborating evidence for a claim of persecution means that the applicant’s claim fails.”
  • “Where there are two USCA11 Case: 21-12770 Date Filed: 06/27/2022 Page: 12 of 12 12 Opinion of the Court 21-12770 permissible views of the evidence, the factfinder’s choice between them cannot be clearly erroneous.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Dubina, Fay, Kleinfeld

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