Dorsey v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a family- based asylum claim would be weakened by the fact that petitioner’s family had not been threatened despite living in same home
• requiring applicant to show “that the persecutor knows or believes that the applicant possesses the protected characteristic”
• denying CAT protections where, in part, petitioner “did not know who would torture him” and that petitioner “made only generalized statements insufficient to show that harm would more likely than not result if returned to El Salvador”
• “The specter of torture must be supported by specific evidence that the individual applicant is more likely than not to be singled out.”
• “The specter of torture must be supported by specific evidence that the individual applicant is more likely than not to be singled out.”
• “The specter of torture must be supported by specific evidence that the individual applicant is more likely than not to be singled out.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).