Legal Opinion
Theresa Browne Banks v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 5, 2006No. 05-3873PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
A citizen of Liberia, Theresa Banks sought asylum on the ground that she had been persecuted on account of her ethnicity (the Krahn tribe) and her support of the Unity Party. (These groups overlap: most members of the Unity Party are ethnic Krahns.) When Banks made her application, Charles Taylor was President of Liberia, and it is undisputed that he had it in for both the Krahns and the Unity Party. Before the immigration judge held a hearing on Banks’s application, however, Taylor fled the country after losing a long and bloody civil war.
Today Taylor is awaiting…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Heckler v. CampbellSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Elder v. HollowaySupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Philip Kerner v. Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
- Jeannette Uwase v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2003
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