Davila-Mejia v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a social group defined as “family business owners” “is too amorphous to adequately describe a social group”
• finding that a proposed group of “competing family business owners” is too “amorphous” under Board and circuit court standards to constitute a “particular” social group
• finding that competing family business owners are not a particular social group because they are not perceived as a group by society
• competing family business owners not a particular social group because not perceived as a group by society
• competing family business owners not a particular social group because not -6- perceived as a group by society
• “[P]etitioners here failed to establish that their status as ‘competing family business owners’ gave them sufficient social visibility to be perceived as a group by society.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).