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· 11/7/2011

Tassi v. Holder

Citations

  • 660 F.3d 710
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 22513
  • 2011 WL 5318077

How courts have described this case

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  • “Notwithstanding the presence of error, we are entitled to permit a BIA decision to stand if the legal and factual infirmities ‘clearly had no bearing on the . . . substance of the decision reached.’” (quoting Ngarurih v. Ashcroft, 371 F.3d 182, 190 n.8 (4th Cir. 2004))
  • an expert witness “is entitled to rely on factual underpinnings—including those based on hearsay—that are ‘of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in the particular field in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject.’”
  • faulting IJ for not crediting affidavit of applicant's mother-in-law

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Judges: Niemeyer, King, Hamilton

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