Center for a Sustainable Coast v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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• concluding that “a month-long detention that included severe physical attacks and threats to [the petitioner’s] life” did not justify CAT relief
• concluding that substantial evidence supported the IJ’s determination that a month-long detention and multiple beatings by police did not rise to the level of torture
• concluding that “a month-long detention that included severe physical attacks and threats to [the petitioner’s] life” did not justify CAT relief
• concluding that “a month-long detention that included severe physical attacks and threats to [the petitioner’s] life” did not justify CAT relief
• concluding that “a month-long detention that included severe physical attacks and threats to [the petitioner’s] life” did not justify CAT relief
• holding that “speculation and conjecture” about “what local police ... might or might not do in their efforts to find a suspected criminal” cannot support an adverse credibility determination

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