Valentina A. Nagoulko v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employment discrimination “is not the type of economic deprivation that rises to the level of persecution”
• holding that employment discrimination “is not the type of economic deprivation that rises to the level of persecution”
• “Persecution . . . is an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment our society regards as offensive.” (quotations omitted)
• petitioner did not experience harm that rises to the level of persecution where she was fired but not prevented from obtaining other employment
• petitioner who was teased, bothered, discriminated against, harassed, and never physically harmed failed to establish harm rising to the level of persecution
• persecution is “an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment our society regards as offensive” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).