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SCOTUS sets high bar for overturning ‘persecution’ ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court rules courts must defer to immigration agencies when reviewing asylum persecution determinations under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Immigration – Asylum – Persecution
Where a petition for asylum was denied, that decision must be upheld absent evidence that a beating and subsequent threats the petitioner received were due to governmental action or inaction. […]
Immigration – Persecution – Abusive relationship
Where an application for asylum and withholding of removal was denied, there was no error, as the applicant did not establish persecution on account of her membership in a group […]
Immigration – Persecution – Isolated attack
Where the petitioner, a Honduran national, was the victim of a single, isolated criminal attack in Honduras and then remained there unharmed for six months, he has not demonstrated past […]
Immigration – Past persecution
Where a bomb was planted outside a petitioner’s place of worship in Indonesia and, six months later, she experienced a violent hijacking at the hands of anti-Christian extremists, those incidents […]
Immigration – Persecution – Humanitarian exception
Where the petitioner, a Guatemalan of Mayan Quiché race and ethnicity, challenges the denial of his request for asylum, the order must be vacated and the case remanded, as (1) […]
Immigration – Persecution – Threats
Where a Brazilian petitioner claimed that his family was entitled to avoid removal based on threats made by his daughter’s former boyfriend, the Board of Immigration Appeals committed no error […]
Immigration – Asylum – Persecution – Family membership
Where the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld the denial of a claim of asylum asserted by two brothers from Guatemala whose father was kidnapped and killed by gang members, a […]
Immigration – Asylum – Persecution
Where the petitioner, a native of Nepal, suffered a single beating by a group of Maoists in April of 2003, he is unable to demonstrate past persecution because the beating […]
Immigration – Persecution – Religion
Where the petitioners seek review of a final order of removal, the immigration courts erred by finding that the persecution one of them experienced in Russia by a group of […]
Immigration – Asylum – Persecution
Where a native and citizen of Albania seeks review of a final removal order requiring him, his wife and their two children to return to Albania, the order must be upheld in light of (1) insufficient evidence of past persecution and (2) sufficient evidence of a fundamental change in Albania such that the petitioners do not have a well-founded fear of future persecution.
Immigration – Persecution – ICE informant
Where a Brazilian citizen sought withholding of removal and relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture, claiming that she faced persecution and torture in Brazil because of her work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement identifying sellers of fraudulent immigration documents, an Immigration Judge properly denied both applications, as (1) the persecution she faces is a personal m[...]
Verdicts & Settlements
- Injury during baby’s adenoidectomy leads to stroke
- Construction worker’s hand caught in cement mixer
- Worker trapped in freezer, dies during steam cleaning
- Pedestrian, 69, hit by motor vehicle while in crosswalk
- Four-vehicle pileup leaves driver with spinal cord injury
- Nursing home staff blamed for kidney-failure death
- Pharmacy’s late delivery blamed for patient’s death
- Man, 25, drowns after swimming lesson at fitness club
Opinion Digests
- Jurisdiction – Forum selection clause – Non-signatory
- Criminal – Responsibility
- Attorneys – Lien
- Landlord and tenant – Default judgment
- Zoning – Constructive grant – Comprehensive permit
- Fraud – False Claims Act – Settlement share
- Civil practice – Discovery – Cybersecurity
