Viollca Brucaj v. John D. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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• relying on State Department’s country report on Yugoslavia, which discussed dismantling of Milosevic regime that had persecuted Albanians, to find that country conditions had changed as they related to ethnic Albanian
• remanding because BIA denied applicant’s claim for humanitarian asylum giving only a “cursory” explanation of its decision that did “little more than paraphrase the language of the applicable regulation” and the basis for the decision was not clear from the record
• remand where BIA failed to consider claim of applicant who was gang-raped and beaten by soldiers in front of her parents
• Petitioner “did not make any argument in her opening brief regarding her CAT claim. Thus she has waived that claim.”
• no expert testimony required to substantiate the psychological trauma associated with a petitioner’s persecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).