· 6/27/2001
Manzoor v. United States Department of Justice
Citations
- 254 F.3d 342
- 2001 WL 697942
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the BIA erred by requiring asylum applicant to prove that the threat of persecution in his home country was countrywide where agency regulations allocated to the INS the burden to show that the alien reasonably could, avoid persecution by relocating to another part of the country
- remanding to the BIA where the Board erred in allocating part of the INS’s evidentiary burden to the asylum applicant
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Judges: Selya, Lynch, Lipez
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