LexisNexis
  

Access State and Federal Case Law, plus U.S. Supreme Court cases — for free!

Click on any of the case links below to view the full text of that case — for free — through lexisONE®, a legal research and news service from LexisNexis®. Login is required — registration is free!

While viewing the full text of the case, select from upgrade options to Shepardize® or view the fully-featured case on lexis.com including Core Terms, Shepard's® Signals, Case Summaries, Print Options, and more. lexisONE offers access to comprehensive content and flexible services for faster, more efficient legal research. Review our flexible LexisNexis® subscriptions offered through daily, weekly or monthly research packages.


   Federal Courts - 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals - January 10, 2006

  
Baci v. Gonzales, Nos. 03-41158-ag (L), 03-41162 (con), 03-41164 (con) NAC, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Overview: A petition for review of the denial of asylum was denied because an alien's loss of his job, standing alone, did not constitute past persecution, and the alien did not allege that the Albanian government fired him on account of any protected ground.

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Belli v. Bd. of Immigration Appeals, No. 04-4332-ag (L); 04-4333 (CON) NAC, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Guo Hua Zhang v. Bd. of Immigration Appeals, No. 04-3707-ag NAC, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Overview: Petition for review from a BIA decision denying claims of asylum and withholding of removal was granted; the IJ's adverse credibility and insufficient evidence findings were based on flawed reasoning.

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Heerwagen v. Clear Channel Communs., Docket No. 04-0699-cv, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Overview: Purchaser of rock concert tickets was properly denied class certification in a Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.S. § 2, suit against a concert promoter. As the relevant geographic market was local, the purchaser could not satisfy the predominance requirement of Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(b)(3) since individualized questions as to each geographic market predominated.

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Jing Xin Lin v. Gonzales, No. 04-0017-ag NAC, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Kopani v. Gonzales, Nos. 04-0675-ag (L), 04-0676-ag (Con) NAC, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Overview: IJ's adverse credibility finding and denial of asylum were supported by substantial evidence because they were based on specific examples of one alien's inherently improbable testimony about a police report dated a year after the incident and both aliens' conflicting testimony about dates and details of specific acts of persecution.

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Lugosch v. Pyramid Co., Docket No. 05-3620-cv, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Overview: District court's abeyance ruling on intervenors' First Amendment request for sealed court documents was vacated and remanded because the ruling was effectively a denial of any right to contemporaneous access in which the district court erred by not making specific, on-the-record findings and by failing to act expeditiously.

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Min Xia Zheng v. Dep't of Homeland Sec., 04-3031-ag NAC, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Overview: An alien's petition for review was denied because she was found not credible; she failed to mention in her credible fear interview that the Chinese family planning authorities threatened to sterilize her and this failure so overwhelmingly undermined her credibility that there was no possibility of a different result if the case were remanded.

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Muja v. Gonzales, No. 04-3712-ag NAC, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Overview: The denial of asylum was affirmed because an immigration judge's factual and credibility determinations were substantially supported by the record where the credibility determination was based on specific examples in the record of the alien's inconsistent and contradictory testimony.

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Nikoloski v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Servs., No. 04-0037-ag NAC, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT, January 10, 2006, Decided
View this case - free  

Overview: The BIA's denial of asylum was supported by substantial evidence that a police beating and four brief interrogations did not amount to past political persecution and that the alien's testimony about telephone threats and the existing country conditions did not establish a subjectively and objectively genuine fear of future persecution.

Search Cases for Free|Daily, Weekly or Monthly Research Subscription Offers|Case Summary Email Service - 50% off

  
Back to Top
  

  www.lexisnexis.com |  About LexisNexis |  Terms & Conditions |  Customer Support |  Sitemap |  Contact Us
  CopyrightŠ 2008  LexisNexis®  All rights reserved.