Shehu v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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• holding that private violence “cannot be labeled ‘persecution’ absent some proof” that government “condoned it or at least demonstrated a complete helplessness to protect the victims” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• concluding that the evidence did not compel a determination that Shehu was entitled to humanitarian asylum after finding that she failed to demonstrate she had suffered past persecution
• holding that private party violence “cannot be labeled ‘persecution’ absent some proof that the … government condoned it or at least demonstrated a complete helplessness to protect the victims”
• upholding the IJ’s finding of changed conditions following changes in the country’s government and significant decreases in violence
• denying petition for review on humanitarian-asylum claim because applicant failed to demonstrate past persecution
• presumption from past persecution at the hands of the Serbian-dominated police or Serbian paramilitary forces rebutted where the Serbs were no longer in control of the government of Kosovo

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).