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· 1/28/2011

Ritonga v. Holder

Citations

  • 633 F.3d 971
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 1761
  • 2011 WL 258380

How courts have described this case

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

  • acknowledging that alien’s exposure to the 1998 riots in Indonesia and a church bombing, while “frightening,” did not compel a finding of past persecution where she was not “individually targeted or physically harmed in [the] events”
  • upholding finding of no persecution when alien was threatened and suffered minor injuries during a home invasion
  • affirming BIA’s finding of no persecution where Christian was the target of taunts and threats on several occasions and suffered head injuries when Muslims broke into her home
  • declining to consider evidence of country conditions that was not in the record
  • “lone occasion” where alien suffered “minor injuries” did not constitute persecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Tymkovich, Seymour, Baldock

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