· 4/13/2004
Pieterson v. Ashcroft
Citations
- 364 F.3d 38
- 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 7123
- 2004 WL 771412
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “[Tjhere was no proven nexus between the violence in Sierra Leone and Pieter-son’s ethnicity and political beliefs.”
- mere discrimina- tion and harassment of Sierra Leone’s Creoles insufficient to show a pattern and practice of persecution
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Judges: Boudin, Lynch, Lipez
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