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RUIZ v. MUKASEY

No. 07-1783.

526 F.3d 31 (2008)

Claudia Cecilia Restrepo RUIZ et al., Petitioners, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 21, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel F. Cashman, Cashman & Lovely, P.C., and Susanna L. Shafer, on brief, for petitioners.

Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Wendy Benner-León, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief, for respondent.

Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.

The lead petitioner, Claudia Cecilia Restrepo Ruiz, is a Colombian national.1 She seeks review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) rejecting her request for asylum. She argues that the BIA erred in its determination that she failed to establish either past persecution or an objectively reasonable fear of future persecution on account of a statutorily protected ground. Concluding, as we...

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