Edna Toussaint v. Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the BIA’s two-page decision provided the Court with adequate insight into its reasoning and allowed for a meaningful review
• concluding that BIA’s decision was adequate even though “the evidence . . . included country reports and various articles” that the BIA “failed to mention specifically”
• finding that the practice of bribery in Haitian prisons “is a general practice not directed at ‘a particular [alien]’”
• agreeing with other courts of appeals that “criminal deportees are not recognized as a social group”
• “[W]e hardly can conceive that Congress would select criminals as a group warranting special protection in removal cases.”
• “[F]or purposes of the INA, criminal deportees are not recognized as a social group.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).