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· 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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Boudin, Lynch, Lipez

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