Brady v. Cocozzo

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that R-A- failed to show that her claimed social group “is a group that is recognized and understood to be a societal faction, or is otherwise a recognized segment of the population, within Guatemala”
• noting that the group “appears to have been defined principally, if not exclusively, for purposes of this asylum case”
• “[We] understand the ‘on account of test to direct an inquiry into the motives of the entity actually inflicting the harm.”
• “[We] understand the ‘on account of’ test to direct an inquiry into the motives of the entity actually inflicting the harm.”
• asylum-seeker fearing harm from private party must show that “she [is] unable to avail herself of the protection of the Government ... in connection with the abuse inflicted”
• “the record does not reflect that [R-A-’s] husband bore any particular animosity toward women who were intimate with abusive partners, women who had previously suffered abuse, or women who happened to have been born in, or were actually living in, Guatemala”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).