Mamadou Amadou v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where a translator prevented an Immigration Judge from understanding the evidence presented, due process had been violated
• holding that suicide was a “‘serious harm’ by any measure” and “failure to provide treatment for mental illness can be a ‘serious harm’ in and of itself”
• finding a due process violation where specific and identifiable misin- terpretations led to an adverse credibility determination
• reversing and remanding where interpreter spoke a different dialect than the petitioner
• where Amadou incorrectly answered questions based on interpreter's faulty interpreting, putting his credibility in jeopardy
• where Amadou incorrectly answered questions based on interpreter’s faulty interpreting, putting his credibility in jeopardy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).