· 1/24/2006
Violeta Shtaro v. Alberto R. Gonzales
Citations
- 435 F.3d 711
- 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 1659
- 2006 WL 162994
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- reversing adverse credibility determination where IJ pointed to no evidence to support his assumptions about the motivations of petitioner’s persecutors
- refusing to uphold adverse credibility determination where discrepancies were minor or easily explained
- remanding where only on of the IJ’s findings might go to alien’s credibility
- lack of authentication is not evidence of forgery
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Kanne, Wood, Sykes
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