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· 8/26/2003

Sherneth Marcia Raffington v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Citations

  • 340 F.3d 720
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 17745
  • 2003 WL 22004836

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “mentally ill female Jamaicans” are “too large and diverse a group to qualify” as a particular social group
  • explaining that reports that “Jamaica devotes limited resources to treating those who are mentally ill” does not establish persecution
  • explaining that a particular social group cannot be “too large [or] too diverse”
  • explaining that a particular social group cannot be “too large [or] too diverse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hansen, Gibson, Loken

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