Vatulev v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence of actual violence without any association of ethnic persecution does not distinguish the acts from common criminality necessary to establish asylum eligibility
• concluding that “there is no evidence or indication that the [Kayabobo gangs were] operating upon the orders or upon the organization of government individuals”
• concluding that incidents of discrimination in education and employment, threats, ethnic slurs, and petty vandalism did not compel a finding of persecution
• stating that “acts of common criminality or personal hostility . . . do not implicate asylum eligibility”
• noting that “acts of common criminality or personal hostility . . . do not implicate asylum eligibility,” citing cases
• stating that “acts of common criminality or personal hostility . . . do not implicate asylum eligibility”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).