Dong Gao, Ziang Zhen Gao v. Board of Immigration Appeals

How courts have described this case

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• noting that our review of the BIA’s decision “will be confined to the rationale of the IJ on which the BIA relied”
• “Notably, when the outcome of an asylum application ‘rises and falls purely on an [immigration judge’s] credibility finding, courts have been particularly concerned that the decision-maker carefully detail the reasoning leading to the adverse finding.’ ”
• “Although the substantial evidence standard leaves fact-finding to the agency, ‘it does not permit an appellate court to defer to unreasoned rulings, or those based on legal error, faulty analysis, or misreadings of the record.’ ”
• “Notably, when the outcome of an asylum application ‘rises No. 16‐3941 11 and falls purely on an [immigration judge’s] credibility find‐ ing, courts have been particularly concerned that the decision‐ maker carefully detail the reasoning leading to the adverse finding.’”
• IJ improperly adopted assumption in cross-examiner’s question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).