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SINGH v. HOLDER

Nos. 06-74547, 07-71289.

643 F.3d 1178 (2011)

Nirmal SINGH; Kulwant Kaur; Sanjot Singh, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent. Kulwant Kaur; Sanjot Singh, Petitioners, v. Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 25, 2011.

Amended June 8, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sabey Abraham , Hardeep S. Rai and Rebecca Rudzianis , Rai & Associates, P.C., San Francisco, CA, for the petitioners.

Peter D. Keisler , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Gregory G. Katsas , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Michelle G. Latour , Assistant Director, Lisa M. Arnold , Senior Litigation Counsel, Luis E. Perez , Tracie N. Jones and Schwanda Rountree , Of Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

Opinion by Chief Judge KOZINSKI; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge NOONAN.

OPINION

KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:

We consider whether lying to the immigration authorities is a sufficient basis for an adverse credibility finding, and when a lie uttered by one spouse may fairly be attributed to the other.

Facts

Nirmal Singh filed an asylum application soon after he came to the United States in 1994. He claimed that he had been persecuted in India because of his support for the Akali Dal Mann Party. Singh testified that...

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