Parussimova v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “persecutors are hardly likely to submit declarations explaining exactly what motivated them to act” (citation omitted)
• holding that reference to a victim’s ethnicity during an attack with multiple motivations was insufficient to satisfy the “one central reason” standard
• holding that “a protected ground [must] represent ‘one central reason’ for the asylum applicant’s persecution”
• concluding that ethnic slur did not compel conclusion that ethnicity was a central motivating reason for attempted sexual assault
• concluding that use of an ethnic slur during an attack, standing alone, did not compel the conclusion that ethnicity was a sufficiently motivating reason for violence
• holding that “utterance of an ethnic slur” during an attack, without more, did not compel the conclusion that ethnicity was a motivating reason for the attack

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).