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· 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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