Legal Opinion
Sereja Yazitchian Lena Melkoumian v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 3, 2000No. 98-70752PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Circuit Judge:
This petition for review presents the question, inter alia, of whether Desir v. Ilchert, 840 F.2d 723 (9th Cir.1988) was overruled sub silentio by INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We conclude it was not and grant the petition for review from the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming the denial of asylum.
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Armenian refugee Sereja Yazitchian and his wife Lena Melkoumian (“Yazitchians”) would probably dispute the notion that there is no such thing as bad publicity. In 1992, a local television station…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-ZacariasSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Teresita Moral BORJA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1999
- Jan Acewicz v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Henryk Brelyk v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Albin Czyz v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Tadeusz Nogacki v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Andrzej Andrzelachaj v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Stanislaw Rusiecki v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Henryk Wroblewski v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Pawel Woszewski v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1993
- Andriasian v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1999
- In the Matter of Fritz Desir v. David N. Ilchert, District Director, Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Mario Ernesto Navas v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- Shabanali Ladha Khatoon Ladha Farzana S. Ladha v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- Abdul Gafoor Bibi Nurun Nisha Faymeeza Nisha Farzana Nisha v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- Nigist Shoafera v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- Luis Alarcon-Serrano v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
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