Ai Chen v. Eric Holder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing “that the BIA and IJ are not 20 required to discuss every piece of evidence in the record”
• granting petition for review because the agency failed to account for strong contradictory evidence “in a meaningful way” and the agency opinion failed “to demonstrate that the agency gave [the contradictory evidence] more than perfunctory consideration”
• “The [agency] may not selectively consider evidence, ignoring that evidence that corroborates an alien’s claims and calls into question the conclusion the judge is attempting to reach.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Again, both Li and Chen were found to be credible witnesses. Their task, therefore, was to establish that their genuine subjective fear of persecution based on their religious faith is objectively reasonable .... ”
• “Because the BIA adopted and affirmed the decision of the IJ but supplemented that decision with its own opinion, the factual findings and reasoning contained in both decisions are subject to judicial review.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating components of well-founded fear of persecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).