Sever Vaduva v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a petitioner who “was punched, his face bruised, and his finger broken” in retaliation for his political activities had suffered past persecution
• noting that “the Board reasonably concluded Vaduva . . . suffered at least one instance of political persecution” when “he was beaten up (he was punched, his face bruised, and his finger broken
• finding that the BIA reasonably concluded that the petitioner suffered past persecution based on being beaten up by strangers warning him about political activity, but affirming denial of asylum based on the lack of a well-founded fear of future persecution
• single beating in which petitioner’s face was bruised and his finger broken constituted past persecution
• upholding determination that a petitioner was persecuted when he was severely beaten and suffered a broken finger
• asylum “unnecessary” due to dramatic change in post-communist Romania

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).