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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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