Elliott A. Rico v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the requisite nexus was not shown where persecutors’ motive was private economic gain
• holding that the requisite nexus was not shown where persecutors’ motive was private economic gain
• holding that requisite nexus was not shown where persecutors’ motive was economic gain rather than broader political struggle
• stating that an alien may demonstrate the persecutors’ motives through “direct or circumstantial evidence”
• stating that an alien may demonstrate the persecutors’ motives through “direct or circumstantial evidence”
• rejecting claimed social group of Salvadoran taxi cooperative because characteristics that defined taxi drivers are not immutable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).