Celso Chavarria v. Alberto Gonzalez, Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the BIA’s decision was not supported by substantial evidence when it 7 “mischaracterized and understated” record evidence
• noting that, even if past threats are not treated as persecution, “they are often quite indicative of a danger of future persecution”
• noting that, even if past threats are not treated as persecution, “they are often quite indicative of a danger of future persecution”
• explaining that threats constituting persecution are limited to a small category of cases where the threats are “so menacing as to cause significant actual ‘suffering or harm’”
• restating that, to establish a well-founded fear of future persecution, an alien must show “subjective fear of persecution that is supported by objective evidence that persecution is a reasonable possibility”
• stating that “we have refused to extend asylum protection for threats that, while sinister and credible in nature, were not highly imminent or concrete or failed to result in any physical violence or harm to the alien”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).