Legal Opinion
John Doe v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 17, 2007No. 03-3671PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
John Doe is the pseudonym of a former lieutenant in El Salvador’s army who has sought asylum in the United States. He has been permitted to litigate his claim pseudonymously because of his fear that if he is returned to El Salvador he will be killed. An immigration judge denied his claim for asylum and other relief back in 2001, and despite the novelty and importance of the case the Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed the immigration judge’s decision without opinion.
The roots of the case are in a notorious episode in El Salvador’s vicious civil war, which raged from…
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