Svetlana Galina and Viatcheslav Galin v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• warning that State Department reports warrant a “healthy skepticism” and the BIA should not treat them as “Holy Writ”
• noting that country reports are “brief and general, and may fail to identify specific, perhaps local, dangers to particular, perhaps obscure, individuals”
• finding that petitioner suffered persecution despite some police action in response to threatening phone calls
• noting that country reports are “brief and general, and may fail to identify specific, perhaps local, dangers to particular, perhaps obscure, individuals”
• warning that State Department reports warrant a “healthy skepti- cism” and the BIA should not treat them as “Holy Writ”
• explaining that an applicant must show that the government condoned private actions “or at least demonstrated a complete helplessness to protect the victims”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).