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PARUSSIMOVA v. MUKASEY

No. 06-75217.

533 F.3d 1128 (2008)

Tatyana Michailovna PARUSSIMOVA, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 24, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saad Ahmad, Esq., Saad Ahmad & Associates, Fremont, CA, argued the cause for the petitioner and filed a brief; Robert L. Volz, Esq., Saad Ahmad & Associates, Fremont, CA, was on the brief.

Sarah Maloney, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, argued the cause for the respondent and filed a brief; James E. Grimes, Senior Litigation Counsel, and Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, were on the brief.

Before: DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and JAMES V. SELNA, District Judge.

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We are called upon to interpret a provision of the Real ID Act of 2005 imposing a new evidentiary burden on asylum applicants and to determine whether the Board of Immigration Appeals, in applying such provision, properly denied asylum to an alien who claimed she was the victim of religious and ethnic persecution in Kazakhstan.

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Tatyana Parussimova is a 28-year-old native and citizen of Kazakhstan. She is...

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