First Circuit· 5/23/2007
Castaneda Castillo v. Gonzales
Citations
- 488 F.3d 17
- 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 12430
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- 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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