Legal Opinion
Mihaly Kotasz, Agnes Horvath Kotasz, Matyas Kotasz, and Erika Kotasz v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 1, 1994No. 92-70268PublishedCited by 234 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
Mihaly and Agnes Kotasz, husband and wife, and their two children, Matyas and Erika, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision denying their applications for asylum and withholding of deportation. All four members of the Kotasz family are natives and citizens of Hungary.
Although the BIA did not question the reliability of evidence showing that Mihaly Kotasz (“Mihaly”) was arrested and beaten on several occasions by the Hungarian police because of his active opposition to the Hungarian communist government, it denied Mi-haly’s asylum…
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