Legal Opinion
Wu Lin v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 11, 2016No. Docket 12-2163PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This petition to review a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) requires consideration of the standard of review for a court of appeals considering the BIA’s determination that an Immigration Judge’s (“U”) findings of fact are clearly erroneous. This issue arises on a petition by Wu Lin for review of the BIA’s decision of April 30, 2012, denying his application for asylum. We conclude that, although the BIA recognized its obligation to apply the “clear error” standard of review to the I J’s findings of fact, it erred in its application of that…
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