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| Askew v. City of Chicago, No. 05-2194,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Officers were properly granted summary judgment in plaintiff's § 1983 action alleging violation of Fourth Amendment because probable cause existed for his arrest; eyewitnesses identified plaintiff as their assailant, knife found on plaintiff was identified as weapon he brandished, and car was stopped in manner consistent with road-rage altercation.
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| Cecaj v. Gonzales, No. 05-1882, No. 05-1882,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Court granted alien's petition for review, vacated removal orders, and remanded to BIA because IJ's finding that alien was not a victim of persecution on account of his political activity was not supported by substantial evidence and IJ did not find that government carried burden of showing that alien lacked well-founded fear of future persecution.
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| Gemeda v. Gonzales, No. 05-1202,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Alien who was native and citizen of Ethiopia and supporter of Oromo Liberation Front and claimed he was detained on two occasions and beaten was properly denied asylum because complained of conduct did not reach level of persecution as he did not describe nature of his confinement or any physical injury.
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| Kobugabe v. Gonzales, No. 05-1607,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Ugandan alien was properly denied withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C.S. § 1231(b)(3)(A) because neither State Department's country report for 1997 nor current report suggested that members of alien's tribe were being persecuted in Uganda; alien's personal history was not enough to show entitlement to withholding of removal.
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| Mabasa v. Gonzales, No. 04-4144,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Denial of asylum was affirmed. Alien's assertions that his situation constituted changed circumstances because, inter alia, the political climate in Zimbabwe worsened since he was in the U.S. failed as events did not constitute changed circumstances under the statutory meaning of the term; instead, they appeared to be the same circumstances.
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| Mabasa v. Gonzales, No. 04-4144,
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 15, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Aliens, natives and citizens of Zimbabwe, were denied petitions for review of the denial of their application for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT relief. As the political climate in Zimbabwe had not changed, they failed to show changed circumstances under 8 U.S.C.S. § 1158(a)(2)(D) to excuse the late filing of their asylum application.
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