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Immigration – Persecution – Withholding of removal
Where an attorney from Pakistan applied for withholding of removal, an order denying that application must be reversed based on evidence of past persecution.
Immigration – Asylum – Persecution
Where the petitioner, a native and citizen of Ecuador, was placed into removal proceedings after she entered the United States without being admitted or paroled, the immigration judge properly denied her applications for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture, as she was unable to prove that she suffered past persecution or would suffer persecution in the fu[...]
Immigration – Asylum – Persecution
Where the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld a denial of a Pakistani family's asylum request, a remand is necessary for an analysis of the reasonableness of the applicants' claim of a fear of future persecution.
Immigration – Asylum – Persecution
Where the petitioner, a native of El Salvador, seeks judicial review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under Article III of the United Nations Convention Against Torture, the petition for review must be denied for lack of sufficient evidence of persecution.
Immigration – Persecution – ‘Social group’
Where the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld a denial of an application for withholding of removal, that decision should be affirmed for lack of convincing evidence of persecution.
Immigration – Asylum – Persecution – Roma ancestry
Where the petitioner, a native and citizen of Moldova, seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under Article III of the United Nations Convention Against Torture, the petition must be denied in all respects due to the petitioner's failure to establish past persecution or a clear probability[...]
Immigration – Withholding of removal – Persecution
Where the petitioner, a Guatemalan national, seeks review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals denying her application for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture, the petitioner failed to show that were she to return to Guatemala, it is more likely than not she would suffer persecution on account of her membership in a particular social group, and a[...]
Immigration – Asylum – Persecution
Where the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld a judge's decision to deny asylum to an Albanian couple, a remand must be ordered for further proceedings on the issues of past persecution and changed country conditions.
Immigration – Persecution – Coptic Christian
Where the Board of Immigration Appeals has upheld an immigration judge's ruling adverse to an Egyptian national, the BIA ruling should be affirmed given a lack of evidence of persecution based on religion.
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
