Aliyev v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that agency failed to sufficiently consider that “despite repeated reports of violence to the police, no significant action was taken”
• finding government acquiescence where, “despite repeated reports of violence to the police, no significant action was taken on [the alien’s] behalf’
• granting petition for review of BIA’s final order of removal and dismissing as moot petition for review of BIA’s denial of reconsideration
• granting petition for review of BIA’s final order of removal and dismissing as moot petition for review of BIA’s denial of reconsideration
• declining to determine “precisely what a person must show in order for the government to be deemed responsible for the conduct of private actors” where petitioner “introduced enough evidence to forge the link between private conduct and public responsibility” (emphasis added)
• “[T]he BIA was not supported by substantial evidence in its finding that Aliyev did not show that the government was unwilling to protect him from private persecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).