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SCOTUS Denies Appeal Of German Family Seeking Asylum For Home Schooling
http://the405media.com/2014/03/03/scotus-denies-appeal-of-german-family-seeking-asylum-for-home-schooling/ ^ | 3/3/14 | John G —

Posted on 03/03/2014 9:09:59 AM PST by Nachum

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To: Starstruck
But if the Supreme Court ruled it was a legitimate reason for asylum, then litigation by other individuals would not be necessary. You have to know when SCOTUS decides to take a case it goes beyond the individual case being heard.

Asylum requests are more complicated than that. The precedent set by a particular case could apply to some extent, but only if the facts of the other cases were very similar.

The Court, had they heard the case, wouldn't have issued a ruling that the inability to homeschool was grounds for asylum, that's not how those opinions are drafted.

The actual effect of the SCOTUS' decision not to hear the case is to reduce the set of circumstances that anyone can use to claim asylum. You can assume that most of the conduct that leads our government to grant asylum is legal in the nation in which it occurs, and is typically some act performed by the government of that nation.

Our government's argument that the real test for whether or not asylum is justified rests on whether or not a foreign government's law is universally applied in their nation is a bad path to proceed along.

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