Cruz Garcia v. Eric Holder, Jr.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “[t]his court does not recognize economic extortion” as persecution based on a protected ground
• stating that under the Attorney General’s standard, “we interpret under color of law as we would in a civil rights case”
• finding that “government acquiescence need not necessarily be an officially sanctioned state action” when an official acts “under color of law”
• stating that “[t]his court does not recognize economic extortion as a form of persecution under immigration law”
• noting that “potential instances of violence committed by non- governmental actors against citizens, together with speculation that the police might not prevent that violence, are generally insufficient to prove government acquiescence”
• remanding to BIA to consider material evidence relevant to CAT claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).