Edu v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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• noting that past torture is “ordinarily the principal factor” in CAT analysis (simplified)
• noting that “the existence of past torture” is “‘ordinarily the principal factor’” on which the court will rely in determining whether an applicant will face future torture (quoting Nuru v. Gonzales, 404 F.3d 1208, 1218 (9th Cir. 2005)
• “[T]he existence of past torture ‘is ordinarily the principal factor on which we rely.’” (quoting Nuru v. Gonzales, 404 F.3d 1207, 1218 (9th Cir. 2005))
• “[T]he existence of past torture is ordinarily the principal factor on which [this Court] rel[ies].” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Congress then implemented CAT in the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998.”
• “[W]hen a nation’s government is itself persecuting its citizens, [i]t has never been thought that there are safe places within [that] nation.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).