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· 7/6/2001

Yatskin v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Citations

  • 255 F.3d 5
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 15091
  • 2001 WL 741575

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • excusing as harmless error the BIA’s failure to provide a reasoned basis for rejecting petitioner’s past persecution claim where uncontested evidence of changed country conditions overcame any presumption of a well-founded fear
  • asylum applicant persecuted by pri- or regime cannot retain presumption of well-founded fear of future persecution after regime change unless the new leaders “harbor the same animosities as the old”
  • presumption from past persecution by Communist government rebutted with the dismantling of the Soviet Union
  • presumption from past persecution by Communist government rebutted with the dismantling of the Soviet Union
  • presumption from past persecution by Communist government rebutted with the dismantling of the Soviet Union
  • \[A] reviewing court should judge the action of an administrative agency based only on reasoning provided by the agency.\

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Judges: Boudin, Torruella, Stahl

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