Yeshwared Woldemeskel v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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

• defining “pattern or practice of persecution” as “‘something on the order of systematic or pervasive persecution’”
• adopting a definition of “pattern or practice of persecution” as “‘something on the order of systematic or pervasive persecution’” (quoting Makonnen v. INS, 44 F.3d 1378, 1383 (8th Cir. 1995)
• presumption from past persecution by former government rebutted with change in government that had persecuted petitioner and concomitant change in country conditions
• “Given the BIA’s detailed recitation of facts and its acknowledgement that much time has passed since [petitioner’s] ordeal, we are satisfied that the BIA heard and considered all the evidence and arguments.”
• “Given the BIA’s detailed recitation of facts and its acknowledgement that much time has passed since [petitioner’s] ordeal, we are satisfied that the BIA heard and considered all the evidence and arguments.”
• “persecution is not defined in the regulations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).