Denbury Resources, Inc. and Denbury Onshore, LLC v. Gemini Insurance Company

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• finding that purported social group of “Guatemalan women who try to escape systemic and severe violence but who are unable to receive official protection” lacked particularity and social distinction”
• explaining that the visibility requirement \turns on 'whether members of a particular group \are set apart, or distinct, from other persons within the society in some significant way\'\ (quoting Vega-Ayala v. Lynch, 833 F.3d 34, 39 (1st Cir. 2016))
• applying BIA's interpretation in M-E-V-G- and rejecting proffered social group of \Guatemalan women who try to escape systemic and severe violence but who are unable to receive official protection\
• rejecting petitioner's claimed particular social group of \Guatemalan women who try to escape systemic and sever violence who are unable to receive official protection\
• “That ends this aspect of the matter. The petitioner’s failure to satisfy both the particularity and the social distinctiveness requirements defeats her attempt to qualify as a refugee through membership in a particular social group.”
• particular social group “must exist independent of the persecution claimed to have been suffered by the alien and must have existed before the alleged persecution began”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).