Cao He Lin, A/K/A Je Ling Chao v. United States Department of Justice and Attorney General Gonzales

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• holding that “absent record evidence of practices in foreign countries, the [agency] must not speculate as to the existence or nature of such practices”
• concluding that “the IJ’s principal reasons for generally discounting [petitioner’s] credibility are seriously flawed” and that “[i]n reviewing [certain] subsidiary findings” regarding both credibility and sufficiency of the evidence, “we find that each one is flawed”
• concluding that “the IJ’s principal reasons for generally discounting [petitioner’s] credibility are seriously flawed” and that “[i]n reviewing [certain] subsidiary findings” regarding both credibility and sufficiency of the evidence, “we find that each one is flawed”
• holding that, absent record evidence, IJ must not speculate as to existence or nature of practices in foreign countries
• holding that “absent record evidence of practices in foreign countries, the IJ must not speculate as to the existence or nature of such practices”
• holding that “absent evidence of practices in foreign countries, the IJ must not speculate as to the existence or nature of such practices”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).