Legal Opinion
NAKO v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 7, 2010No. 09-2351PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Petitioners Sokrat Nako, his wife Kozet Filipi, and his son Kristi, Albanian nationals, petition for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which upheld an Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of their request for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The IJ denied their petition, inter alia, because even assuming Nako had established a well-founded fear of future persecution based on past political persecution before he left Albania in 2001, circumstances in Albania since had so fundamentally…
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