Legal Opinion
Lek Berishaj v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 5, 2004No. 03-1338PublishedCited by 186 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
Lek Berishaj, an ethnic Albanian from Montenegro, petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which affirmed without opinion the decision of an immigration judge (IJ) denying him asylum and relief under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). Under our case-law, see Dia v. Ashcroft, 353 F.3d 228 (3d Cir.2003) (en banc), it is the IJ’s decision that we review, no mean task here because the IJ’s opinion is cursory, thinly reasoned, and discusses the case…
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