First Circuit· 5/23/2007

Castaneda Castillo v. Gonzales

Citations

488 F.3d 17
2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 12430

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holding that the persecutor bar “presumptively . . . should be read not to apply to petitioner” if his testimony that he knew nothing of plans for a massacre that his actions objectively assisted were accepted
noting that remanding to the BIA is the \ordinary course\ where the record does not \compel[]\ a decision in the petitioner's favor
remanding \to allow the matter to be considered anew under the proper legal standards\
remanding “to allow the matter to be considered anew under the proper legal standards”
\This would be a different case if the evidence clearly established that Castañeda had guilty knowledge[.]\
“[A] suit for prospective injunctive relief provides a narrow, but 23 well-established, exception to Eleventh Amendment immunity.”

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Judges: Boudin, Torruella, Selya, Lynch, Lipez, Howard

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